Survey: People analytics: driving business performance with people data

To investigate how people analytics is being used to understand people data, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in association with Workday, surveyed 3,852 business professionals worldwide about their views and opinions.

Key findings

• Three-quarters of HR professionals globally are tackling workforce performance and productivity issues using people data.
• Visibility of data, such as via data dashboards, correlates with improved outcomes, but access differs by profession: while 71 per cent of HR professionals globally have access to people data, only 42 per cent of finance professionals state that they do.
• 55 per cent of respondents collect data on pay and benefits, but only 40 per cent report on this data.
• UK respondents are least likely to collect employee/productivity performance rates, revenue per employee data and return on investment of the workforce.

The report also includes recommendations to help improve the use of people analytics within the HR function.