Understanding New Hires vs Total New Hires
In another post we discussed the difference between terminations and total terminations. There is similar concept on the hiring side with a twist. I'm going to cover that same topic on the hiring side by looking at new hires and total new hires, but I'm going to go a...
Understanding Terminations vs Total Terminations
In a prior post we talked about why retro-terms or retro-hires were used to communicate how head count was changing. It adds some complexity to understanding your workforce, but it's vital to understanding how numbers can change over time. When someone terminates it...
What are Retro Hires and Retro Terms?
Human resources is complicated. It's messy. Thus, keeping track of things is even messier. All of this messiness leads to esoteric concepts like retro-hires and retro-terms. Retro-hires and retro-terms capture a specific situation that rises because of the underlying...
How long do you keep your data?
The right to be forgotten is a hot topic today given GDPR has put that right into law now. But in the event someone or an event requires you to actually execute someone being forgotten how do you do it, and still remain compliant with other laws that require you to...
What are the benefits of Position Management?
There are lots of ways to think about position management. Industries have specialized techniques that apply to certain verticals, and may use specialized metrics to help them plan. Position management involves the metrics you use to analyze employee forecasting and...
Head Count and the many ways to calculate it
No other metric is more fundamental to Human Resources (HR) than head count. It's used in so many other calculations that obtaining an accurate head count is vitally important for other more interesting analytical metrics. Head count is simple in it's idea which is...
Archive and Migrate Your HR Data in one Step
Archiving your human resources data is never your first thought when you have bought a new system. As a kid can you imagine playing with your old toys when you just got a branch new toy? It is a similar feeling for us adults when we get new HR systems. "Finally we're...
The Cloud has fundamentally changed migrating human resource data
The world seldom stays the same for long, especially these days, and human resources is no different. Just 10 years ago the average time a company would make a new human resource system was every 7.5 years. Now it's closer to 3.5 years which means migrating data is...
How to break up with your HR vendor
Breaking up is hard to do as they say, and that's true for when enterprises break-up too. Sure maybe lawyers don't drive-by slowly blaring their favorite break-up tune then speed off loudly when they catch a glimpse of their defendants. But make no mistake, B2B...
How can legacy HCM system stop GDPR compliance?
If you've ever been involved in HCM system migration you know what a massive effort that is to move between HCM systems. You also know that acquiring companies means usually there will be another HCM system or at a minimum payroll that needs to be integrated. If...
Data Archiving and GDPR compliance
Enterprise Tech had a great article on some technical aspects of GDPR compliance that are often forgotten. The interesting point here is that having integrated data archiving in place makes GDPR compliance easier to achieve when it comes to handling data migration,...
A Simpler Data Quality Solution
The trend in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human capital management (HCM) has been to move much of the functions out of the single system. Specialized products over the last 10 years have sprung up focusing only on portions of a HCM system. Enterprises can...
Acquisition & Divestiture Checklist for the HR & Payroll Merger
Transition strategy checklist ☑️ M&A deals often land on HR and Payroll (and HRIT) without much warning and often without additional resourcing help to handle a successful operational consolidation effort. This often results in a failure to realize ROI on expected...
Acquisition & Divestiture Integration Roadmap for the HR & Payroll Merger
HR and Payroll leadership face many daunting tasks in planning and execution specifically related to HR, Payroll and overlapping IT operations. These challenges often have major impacts to Merger & Acquisition success rates. Adding to the challenge, most...
Increasing the ROI of Workforce Analytics by Single Sourcing
Workforce Analytics is a difficult task for any organization. It's a deep subject with lots of techniques, tricks, and gotchas. However, before most organizations can begin to argue over statistic models they struggle with the mundane task of data collection. In...
Data Management 101
Mastering the basics have been a hallmark of many successful people. No one made fundamentals more central to their success than Vince Lombardi. The start of the 1961 season started with Lombardi focusing on skills like blocking and tackling...
Cybersecurity Regulation Impact on HR and Payroll
The NY Department of Financial Services has proposed sweeping cybersecurity regulations taking effect March 2017 for all financial services organizations operating in New York State: “It is critical for all regulated institutions that have not...
Is Your HR Analytics strategy on the right path?
HR Analytics has now attracted the attention of most organizations as a critical strategic effort. However, is your strategy really a "long view" strategy? OR is it just tactical? If you are like most, the focus has been on quick wins in a...
HR and Payroll Data Retention & Archiving Compliance
The below table is not an exhaustive list of U.S. retention requirements, but covers the basics from a Federal perspective as well as a few specific requirements for Financial Services (BSA regulation) and Chemical/ Pharmaceutical (FDA regulated industries). When...
Why Archive Historical Data, Why Now?
Many companies know they should ask the question, "what's our historical archiving strategy?". However, too often it ends there being added to a long list of "to-do's" which never get done. The move to cloud providers and constant shuffle in HR and Payroll software...
Peril in HR Predictive Analytics
Having spent the past 15+ years in Human Resources technology, I am generally excited about the things happening with SaaS, Mobile, and Analytics software and technology helping HR bring long awaited strategic value to organizations globally. However, it is critical...
The single biggest challenge to HR strategic reporting is…
Fragmentation. More data in more places than ever before. Step 1 to getting ahead of the curve is consolidating your critical data all in one spot for HR where it can be secured and also managed according to data privacy compliance rules globally. Over the past 10-15...
Back to school reading for HR Analytics
There are a few books we have run across that are excellent foundations in transforming HR into a strategic business function using Analytics. The HR Value Proposition by Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank A milestone book for HR professionals that led the way to HR...
Grassroots HR Analytics Toolkit – Getting Started in HR Analytics
HR analytics still seems to be facing an uphill battle in many organizations globally. For those of you struggling with no support and little budget, there are still ways to ramp up an effective strategy and quick wins to prove the value. The tools below are...
Human Resources Analytics Primer
This introduction to the terminology of Business Intelligence covers some of the basic concepts often discussed in Analytics software and reporting. While the concepts can and do fill many books, current HR software typically does not contain the breadth of data...
The HR Data Warehouse-as-a-Strategy
The Next Generation HR Data Warehouse Among the major forces impacting the HR and IT landscapes over the next 5-10 years there are several which require a renewed look at strategic HR master data management approaches and platforms: 1) Process globalization...