Measures, metrics, and indicators (often referred to as Key Performance Indicators or KPI) are common words in the field of workforce analytics. More than jargon, these three terms define the building blocks of data analytics that help HR professionals understand...
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Measure Absenteeism To Identify, Quantify and Fix The Problem
Employee absenteeism is a double-whammy expense for companies – they pay wages to absent employees and see a resulting loss of productivity at the same time. Companies need to measure absenteeism to track costs as well as to understand why employees are absent – and...
Talent Analytics Metrics: Finding the Keys to Quality of Hire
According to the Society for Human Resource Management, the Holy Grail of recruiting is maximizing “quality of hire.” The challenge for human resources professionals is how to measure quality of hire in order to replicate great results and assign a dollar figure to...
Measure Your Talent Bench To Reduce Risk
Your company’s talent bench indicates the strengths and weaknesses employees bring to the job. Knowing the breadth and depth of your talent bench means understanding if you have the right skill sets your business needs – not only at this moment in time but also for...
How to Take Action Once You Measure Employee Engagement
A big groundswell of opinion among businesses over the past 10-12 years is that employee engagement is the key to a company’s success. Not to be confused with employee satisfaction, which has more to do with personal career growth, employee engagement is defined by...
How Measuring Employee Mobility Leads To Organizational Success
Measuring employee mobility gives companies a map for preparing employees for leadership roles. There’s a balance between moving employees among positions and the length of time spent in each position that results in success; it is up to each company to discover their...
How To Minimize the Damage of Employee Turnover With HR Analytics
Employee turnover is one of the top three concerns of companies (along with productivity and performance, which I’ve blogged about previously). That’s because employee turnover equals big bucks. One HR industry measure shows that by reducing turnover just one percent...
How HR Can Measure Performance – And Boost The Bottom Line
How well do you do your job? That’s commonly referred to as performance and it’s subjective – at least, more subjective than productivity. Performance is one of the top three workforce insights ZeroedIn gets asked for, because it’s tied to employee compensation, the...
Productivity Tops List of Workforce Insights Companies Count On
Productivity is consistently the top workforce insight that companies request from ZeroedIn. No wonder – employee productivity can mean the difference between a company succeeding, failing, or just getting by. If you can picture an entrepreneur starting a business and...
Top 10 Most Requested Workforce Analytics Insights
Every company wants better insight into their workforce. But what exactly are the insights that companies are looking for? We’ve organized them into the Top 10 most commonly requested workforce topics. Productivity Performance Turnover Mobility Labor hours (like...