In an era of digital overwhelm, overworked employees and disengaged talent looking to abandon ship, the wellbeing of the workforce might just be the metric that turns the ship around. A plethora of scientific research on stress and creativity, along with statistics reflecting the desperation of big business to engage and retain top-tier talent, herald the potential demise of the traditional business model. Let's take a look at the HR metrics for wellbeing, and why you need to consider measuring these HR Metrics in your business.

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Topics: HR Metrics, Employee Wellbeing, The Third Metric

It's easy for HR to dismiss the benefits of measuring the metrics within your organisation. After all, numbers are often considered to be the responsibility of the Finance Department. However, case studies prove time and again that if you want to know what your people think, what matters to them, how you're tracking against the important things and generally how you're performing as an organisation, it is imperative for you to decide on some metrics and then measure them religiously and regularly.

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Topics: Culture and Values, Employment Culture, HR Metrics, Values, Employee Value Proposition, Employee Engagement, The Starlight Children's Foundation

Let’s go back in time for a second, to the year 2000. Your HR team is busy getting through a lot of paperwork, recruiting for new employees, preparing reports and managing employee information. You are reading through several reports. There’s data about staff turnover, the number of hours worked this week and absenteeism rates. The reports also look into how long employees stay with the organisation on average, diversity of employees and promotion rates amongst different roles.

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Topics: HR Efficiencies, HR Data, HR Metrics, HR Managers

In their 2013 study on HR analytics effectiveness, HR InSights surveyed over 250 HR professionals on the use of analytics within the HR function to determine its impact on the rest of the organisation. The results of this survey were far from satisfactory, from a HR Manager’s perspective.

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Topics: HR Metrics, hr reports format, human resources reports, human resources analytics

Topics: HR Leadership, HR Metrics, HR Brainstorming