Data literacy for HR: A practical guide to developing workforce insights

The largest cost to a business is often its people, and people are also the key to long-term success. So there's little question as to why leaders are increasingly seeking to shape people practices and strategy by making data-driven decisions grounded in accurate, real-time metrics. With enormous volumes of data coming from every direction – legacy systems, productivity metrics, survey results, sales performance and workforce costs – making sense of it all can be overwhelming for HR teams. It's not enough to simply gather data – it also needs to be normalised and translated into reports and insights that help answer key people questions. This is certainly a tall order, but this guide can help you to start improving your organisation's workforce analytics capabilities.