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November 17, 2022 Hayley Bresina

Go Beyond the Rooney Rule, Try Diverse Slate Hiring

The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching...

November 2, 2022 Jamie Strnisha

Using Diversity Reporting to Give Everyone an Equal Opportunity to Succeed

Fundamentally, people analytics is about using research and data to reduce the mistakes of human bias. Consistently collecting and...

October 14, 2022 Chris Butler

People Analytics Success: What Makes One Model Special

HR professionals have heard the stories and read the news. Large organisations are having considerable success implementing a people...

October 10, 2022 Taylor Clark

How Good is Their Predictive Model on Your HR Data?

The human resources department is a mission-critical function in most businesses. So the promise of better people decisions has generated...

October 5, 2022 Dennis Behrman

Celebrating 8 Years of People Data Cloud™️ Success: Software for HR Data Analytics

At One Model, we’re inspired by innovative companies and their thriving people. After years of building analytics tools for other HR...

September 7, 2022 Phil Schrader

Average Revenue per Employee - How to Calculate, Segment, and Benchmark

People analytics teams tend to shy away from calculating revenue per employee. It’s a very macro number. On its own, a single revenue per...

August 30, 2022 Chris Butler

Workday Data to Snowflake, Azure, Redshift, BigQuery

Need your Workday data delivered to Snowflake, Redshift, Azure, BigQuery? We can now provide that focused data integration capability...

August 24, 2022 Phil Schrader

8 Essential People Analytics Dashboards

As a people analytics leader, you’re going to be confronted with some not-to-simple, horribly open-ended questions: “Hey, so what do you...

July 25, 2022 Joe Grohovsky

Grow your People Analytics Maturity with Exploratory Data Analysis

During my daily discussions with One Model prospects and customers, two consistent themes emerge: A general lack of understanding...

June 27, 2022 Nicholas Garbis

Measuring the Value of People Analytics: How to Calculate HR Analytics Use & Impact

How do we measure the value of people analytics? Is your organization making better, more data-informed talent decisions today versus a...

June 21, 2022 Nicholas Garbis

Here’s how People Analytics fits into your HR Strategy

The role of the Human Resources function is to ensure that the organization has the talent it needs to execute its strategies. So if you’re...

June 20, 2022 Chris Butler

HRIS Software Comparison: Who has the Best People Analytics Integration Architecture?

Workday vs SuccessFactors vs OracleRatings Based on Experience Integrating HR Tech for People Analytics This vendor-by-vendor comparison...

May 25, 2022 Jamie Strnisha

Headcount Reports and Balancing Internal Net Movements

One of the most common reporting challenges companies face is balancing headcount over time by adding and subtracting Hires and...

May 9, 2022 Joe Grohovsky

HR Law: Will your People Analytics AI activity create legal concerns?

In a recent editorial (here), Emerging Intelligence Columnist John Sumser explains how pending EU Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

May 4, 2022 Dennis Behrman

You Need Help if You Can't Answer These People Analytics Questions Easily

Brilliant talent decisions require superb data. But how do you know what decision power lies in your data? Test it for yourself! Our People...

April 28, 2022 Tony Ashton

One AI Democratizes Transparent & Ethical Machine Learning

April 2022 Product Update A key part of One Model's product vision is to democratize AI in HR with the use of advanced analytics, so that...

April 21, 2022 Nicholas Garbis

5 Critical HR Challenges Facing Retail and How People Analytics Tackles Them

Retailers are riding a supercharged shopping cart full of change that has accelerated due to the pandemic and exacerbated by a one-company...

April 19, 2022 Phil Schrader

Evaluating A Predictive Model: Good Smells and Bad Smells

Post 1: Sniffing for Bull***t. As a people analytics professional, you are now expected to make decisions about whether to use various...

March 14, 2022 Chris Butler

7 Secrets Every CHRO Should Know About People Analytics

A major shift has occurred in Human Resources over the past five years. The world went from a handful of companies experimenting with...

February 17, 2022 Phil Schrader

Key Metrics for Succession Planning

Succession planning is a strategic HR function. Its purpose is to map out key positions in the organization and identify potential...

February 3, 2022 Chris Butler

People Analytics vs HR Analytics: The Evolution

When I first started work with InfoHRM in the people analytics domain back in 2006, we were the only vendor in the space and had been for...

February 2, 2022 Nicholas Garbis

Develop Ethical AI Principles and Processes for Your HR Strategy

We wrote this paper because we believe that AI/ML has the potential to be a very valuable and powerful technology to support better talent...

January 18, 2022 Tony Ashton

Overcoming 6 Key Challenges in Establishing a Data Analytics Capability

[This article is taken from a presentation I delivered as part of a broader session on People Analytics for the Australian Human Resources...

December 24, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

Why You Need Both HR Reporting and Analytics

Only humans would bother inventing something as complex as the concept of species. Attempting to organize every living thing around us into...

October 7, 2021 Chris Butler

One Model Wins Queensland Export Award!

One Model took home the Small Business Category of the Queensland Premier's Export Awards held last night at Brisbane City Hall.

August 11, 2021 Chris Butler

Can your people analytics strategy deliver the public service of the future?

The public sector is rapidly evolving, is your people analytics strategy fit for purpose and can it meet the increasing demands of a modern...

July 22, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

New Whitepaper from One Model: "Delivering People Analytics from Workday"

Our team recently published a whitepaper which explains the "how and why" of our approach to getting data out of Workday. In it we share a...

July 19, 2021 Chris Butler

One Model appointed to the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency Cloud Marketplace

One Model has announced its appointment to the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Agency Cloud Marketplace, a digital sourcing...

June 3, 2021 Chris Butler

SuccessFactors Data to Snowflake, Azure, Redshift, BigQuery

June 3, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

Insight Generation: Humans and Machines Turning on “Lightbulbs” Together (VIDEO!)

WATCH THE VIDEO! Conversation with our Chief Product Officer, Tony Ashton, on the topic of insight generation and he shows how One Model’s...

June 3, 2021 Tony Ashton

Product Update - Embedded Insights

As you saw in the last One Model product update we are really focused on delivering a compelling capability for Storytelling with Data. Our...

May 12, 2021 Phil Schrader

Quick Win: Recruiting Source Costs

It can be hard to select the right people analytics projects. There’s no shortage of options to choose from-- turnover risk, career path...

May 4, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

Why Your Finance and HR Teams Can't Seem to Agree on Headcount (VIDEO!)

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April 27, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

VIDEO: "Lightning Round Learning, Strategic Workforce Planning, pt. 1"

There are whole books written about Workforce Planning. I read them and enjoy them (maybe even more than I would like to admit). I will...

April 22, 2021 Phil Schrader

Greenhouse Workday Integration with Engagement Surveys: The Secrets Your Cohorts are Hiding.

Thanks for stopping by the blog to check out our work on integrating Workday, Greenhouse, and Engagement Survey data. Along with a video ...

April 22, 2021 Chris Butler

People Analytics Needs to Support the Enterprise Data Mesh

If people analytics teams are going to control their own destiny they're going to need to need to support the enterprise data strategy. ...

April 12, 2021 Tony Ashton

One Model Product Update - April 2021

One Model customers receive regular product release updates, but it’s been a little while since the last broader blog post, so let’s chat...

December 17, 2020 Chris Butler

One Model Wins "Best New People Analytics Solution" at HR Tech Alliances Summit

This week One Model was delighted to participate with an elite group of our industry peers in the HR Tech Alliances, Virtual Collaboration...

November 25, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

"Explore the Power of People Analytics" an eBook for HR and Business Leaders.

As part of a recent People Analytics course from the Future Workplace, Nicholas Garbis joined forces with course leader Heather Whiteman,...

November 23, 2020 Joe Grohovsky

Why do some People Analytics stakeholders settle for limited products?

As a result of my blogs and customer conversations, I receive a variety of interesting comments and feedback from my contacts in the People...

November 20, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

VIDEO: Projecting Future Diversity - Tightening the Turning Radius of Your Organization

Yes, it's 'Whiteboard Time' again!In this blog post, we are sharing a video recording on the topic of modeling future diversity levels...

October 5, 2020 Joe Grohovsky

3 Reasons People Analytics Teams Drag their Feet on Machine Learning for HR, and Why AI is Not as Intimidating as You Might Think

Most of my One Model work involves chatting with People Analytics professionals discussing how our technology enables them to perform their...

September 17, 2020 Chris Butler

5 ways people analytics and One Model can help you resolve underpayments issues

Following our blog last month about how systems issues can open the door to staff underpayment, a number of our stakeholders have asked if...

August 12, 2020 Tony Ashton

How to mitigate the likelihood of an underpayments scandal

Following recent media reports that another significant Australian institution has been involved in an underpayments scandal, we thought it...

July 31, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

VIDEO: Labor Markets Press Conference, July 28, 2020

On July 28, 2020, Nicholas Garbis of One Model and Cary Sparrow of Greenwich.HR delivered a press conference from the floor of the old...

July 20, 2020 Stacia Damron

VIDEO: One Model Presentation at HR.com event "People Analytics for the COVID Reset" by Nicholas Garbis

One Model recently took part in HR.com's "Inspire 2020" virtual symposium. Nicholas Garbis, One Model's VP of People Analytics Strategy,...

July 7, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

The June jobs report was good. Here’s why July will be even better.

SUMMARY: June was great at 4.8 million new jobs. July will be over 6 million.

July 1, 2020 Jamie Strnisha

The Need to Build Structural Views of Data: SAP SuccessFactors Data

Over the years I have worked with several operational and strategic (analytic) reporting tools. I have found challenges with both types of...

June 18, 2020 Phil Schrader

SuccessFactors: The Goldilocks Applicant Tracking System

It’s always good news when a prospective One Model customer tells me that they use SuccessFactors for recruiting. Given that HR technology...

June 8, 2020 Joe Grohovsky

What Makes a Successful People Analytics Professional?

To help understand why some People Analytics professionals are more successful than others I undertook a worldwide request for insight. I...

June 1, 2020 Chris Butler

People Analytics for SAP SuccessFactors

The first in a series of posts tackling the individual nuances we see with HR technology systems and the steps we take in overcoming their...

May 29, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

Business Hiring Outlook in the US: Small Signs of Recovery Slipping Away?

Two weeks ago, we released a new publicly available Covid Job Impact website to share daily data and insights on US job listings by...

April 7, 2020 Joe Grohovsky

John Sumser: 12 Questions to Ask an Artificial Intelligence Solution

John Sumser, one of the most insightful industry analysts in HR, recently wrote an article providing guidance on the selection of machine...

March 25, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

Tracking COVID-19 Impacts on Your Workforce (#2 in our COVID-19 series, including a quick tool)

Our objective in this series is to offer our team’s expertise to the public during this crisis in the same way that Walmart delivers...

March 17, 2020 Chris Butler

People Analytics for measuring the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

With the continued growth of the Coronavirus pandemic our leaders are going to be asking for regular updates on our employees health and...

February 3, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

One Model Welcomes Nicholas Garbis as VP of People Analytics Strategy

Here at One Model, we have some great news regarding our team! Nicholas Garbis has joined us as VP of People Analytics Strategy, bringing...

January 27, 2020 Tony Ashton

One Model Product Update - Beta Release of New User Experience (UX) & Storyboards

Every two weeks or so One Model customers receive our product release notes and learn about all of the innovations flowing from One Model’s...

November 7, 2019 Josh Lemoine

Like Craft Beer? Then you'll LOVE Craft People Analytics.

Software companies today aren't exactly selling the idea of "lovingly crafting you some software that's unique and meaningful to...

October 24, 2019 Chris Butler

Using People Analytics to Support System Migration and Innovation Adoption

About ten years ago, as the pace of HR technology migration to the cloud started to heat up, I started to have a lot more conversations...

October 10, 2019 Stacia Damron

One Model Welcomes APAC Region Sales Leader, Bruce Chadburn

One Model welcomes Bruce Chadburn as the new APAC Region Sales Leader. Bruce has a long history of successful sales in the HR domain and...

August 30, 2019 Stacia Damron

One Model Opens New Data Center in Sydney Australia, with Plans to Open Additional International Data Centers in 2019.

This summer, One Model opens new Data Center in Sydney, Australia.

May 1, 2019 Tony Ashton

Why I'm Excited to Join One Model - by our New Chief Product Officer, Tony Ashton

Here at One Model, we are incredibly excited to have Tony Ashton join us from SAP SuccessFactors as our first Chief Product Officer and...

April 23, 2019 Stacia Damron

Meet Tony Ashton: Chief Product Officer at One Model

The One Model team is excited to announce that Tony Ashton has moved from Vice President of Product Management at SAP SuccessFactors to be...

April 15, 2019 Stacia Damron

Visit the One Model Team at Impact 2019

One Model is pleased to be a sponsor for the upcoming Bersin/ Deloitte IMPACT 2019 conference this April 15-17 in Phoenix, Arizona.

January 11, 2019 Phil Schrader

The Case for Doing Things Backwards in 2019

As the people analytics leader in your organization, you are responsible for transforming people data into a unique competitive...

January 7, 2019 Josh Lemoine

How to Burn 296,827 Calories Using One Model

2019 Goals: With it being the dawn of a new year, a lot of us are setting goals for ourselves. This year, I set two goals: To write and...

December 20, 2018 Stacia Damron

AI Academy: What's the difference between forecasting and predictive modeling?

Ever play with a Magic 8 Ball? Back in the day, you could ask it any question and get an answer in just a few seconds: yes, no, or our...

December 3, 2018 Stacia Damron

AI Academy: What's predictive analytics & what can HR do with it?

Wouldn't it be incredible to predict the future? Let's ask 63-year-old Joan Ginther. She's arguably one of the luckiest women in the world.

November 8, 2018 Stacia Damron

AI Academy: What is Machine Learning?

What's machine learning? Is it artificial intelligence? Deep learning? Is it black magic, or better yet, just a phrase the industry's...

October 12, 2018 Stacia Damron

Workplace Trust - 58% of People Trust Strangers More than Their Own Boss

It’s a great time to be in management, right? According to a Harvard Business Review survey, we live in a world where trust is at an all...

October 10, 2018 Chris Butler

Why you should consider joining a people analytics peer group.

Earlier this year i joined one of The Learning Forum's workforce analytics peer groups and i wanted to share my experience in attendence...

September 26, 2018 Stacia Damron

There are more CEOs named David than there are women CEOs.

It’s sounds ridiculous, but it’s true. According to the New York Times, 4.2% of women held CEO roles in America’s 500 largest companies....

September 11, 2018 Stacia Damron

HRExaminer Adds One Model to "Most Interesting AI Companies in HR Tech" Watchlist

Today, at The HR Technology Conference and Exposition, HRExaminer unveiled its 2019 Watchlist - "The Most Interesting AI Vendors in HR...

August 30, 2018 Stacia Damron

Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.

Is your company meeting it’s diversity goals? More importantly, if it is, what’s the outcome of hitting those goals? While we may have the...

August 3, 2018 Phil Schrader

People Analytics Sneaky Frustration: How to count people over time?

Analytics is a funny discipline. On one hand, we deal with idealized models of how the world works. On the other hand, we are constantly...

July 26, 2018 Stacia Damron

One Model Launches New Website

One Model is keen on ensuring our customers have an exceptional experience interacting with both our software and team alike. That...

July 11, 2018 Phil Schrader

Time Is On My Side: The Requisition Cholesterol Graph

Last week I was doodling some recruiting graphs in my notebook, with an eye toward building out some new recruiting efficiency dashboards....

June 28, 2018 Stacia Damron

One Model Announces Greenhouse Integration

One Model is excited to officially announce that today, we launched our new integration with Greenhouse Software, the fastest growing...

June 25, 2018 Chris Butler

Future Proofing the Future of Work

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at the Talent Strategy Institute’s Future of Work conference (now PAFOW) in San Francisco about how I...

April 23, 2018 Phil Schrader

Steam Powered Data Science for HR

We’re back with another installment of our One Model Difference series. On the heels of our One AI announcement, how could we not take this...

March 30, 2018 Stacia Damron

Why is a Tech Startup Blogging about Spring Cleaning?

How did Spring cleaning become a thing, and why do we do it? It’s officially March. Daylight savings has us up an hour earlier, the...

March 26, 2018 Chris Butler

How You're Wasting 75% of the Power of Employee Surveys

The employee survey still is perhaps the most ubiquitous tool in use for HR to give their employees a voice. It may be changing and being...

March 15, 2018 Phil Schrader

The One Model Difference #11 - Your Data Insurance Policy

There will be over 400 HR product and service providers in the expo hall at HR Tech in September. A typical company makes use of 8 - 11 of...

March 13, 2018 Stacia Damron

One Model Announces One AI

The One Model team is pleased to announce its official launch of One AI. The new tool integrates cutting-edge machine learning...

March 2, 2018 Phil Schrader

One Model Differences #4 and #5: Cleaning Up Your Data Mess

The One Model Difference - special combo edition: Extracting all your data (#4) into a standard content catalog (#5).

February 26, 2018 Chris Butler

Predict Turnover Risk for $0.57c using AWS Machine Learning - Part 2

We received a lot of interest from Part 1 of this blog post so if you haven't read it yet head over for a summary view of our...

February 21, 2018 Phil Schrader

The One Model Difference #17: The Most Advanced Role-Based Security

People often ask us, "What makes One Model different?" Well...there's a lot we could show and tell. We've decided to respond with a series...

February 14, 2018 Stacia Damron

One Model Announces Updated 2018 Trade Show Schedule

Find our team in a city near you, and stop by in person to learn more about our workforce analytics solutions. February 9, 2018 - Austin, TX

January 15, 2018 Chris Butler

Predict Turnover Risk for $0.57c using AWS Machine Learning - Part 1

“We scoffed when you predicted he would leave, six weeks later he was gone. Never in a million years would I have said he would leave ”

January 2, 2018 Chris Butler

Smaller organizations have a surprising appetite for People Analytics.

The biggest change in people analytics that surprised me in 2017 wasn't any new leap in technology or shiny new object. For me, it was the...

November 6, 2017 Chris Butler

One Model Announces Launch of Recruiting Analytics for SmartRecruiters Customers

Recruiting Analytics is now available for SmartRecruiters Customers We’re happy to announce that a standalone Recruiting Analytics version...

November 1, 2017 Chris Butler

One Model Secures $3.7M in Series Seed Investment

On behalf of the One Model team I am excited to announce on our third anniversary of founding that we have secured an amazing seed round...

March 29, 2017 Chris Butler

The end of the snapshot for people analytics: Workday edition

I recently made a simple post on LinkedIn which received a crazy amount of views and overwhelmed us with requests to take a look at what we...

May 12, 2016 Mike West

How to Game the Best Company to Work For Awards

This is continued from a "Gloves Off Friday Post" by Mike West on Linkedin Pulse here: How the Best Company Award is Wrong

April 11, 2016 Mike West

How your company is doing People Analytics poorly (even if you think you aren't doing People Analytics)

You may not think your company is yet doing People Analytics but here is one way your employer is already doing so, poorly. Employers...

February 22, 2016 Mike West

Does People Analytics Work? #PAQA

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.” Henry Ford, Lord Lever, John Wanamaker... ...

February 19, 2016 Mike West

#1 Reason People Quit Google and What They Are Doing About It

# 1 Reason people leave google: to connect with their personal calling to change the world. Ironically, it is also the number one reason...

January 30, 2016 Mike West

My Learning From People Analytics & The Future Of Work #PAFOW

I spent four days in San Francisco visiting People Analytics professionals and attending Al Adamsen's Talent Strategy Institute : People...

January 18, 2016 Mike West

The Work of Freedom is Not Finished : People Analytics and Diversity.

January 18th, 2016 In the 53 years that has passed since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech America has...

January 13, 2016 Mike West

5 Reasons HR Analytics Efforts Stall and a New Way Forward

"Life is a struggle, and then you die" So go make something of it. Work on something important and watch over these things. The 5 Reasons...

January 8, 2016 Mike West

What Your HR Analytics Technology Sales Rep Doesn't Want You To Know

“This the real world, homie, school finished. They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it.” Kayne West (no relation) A New...

December 29, 2015 Mike West

Welcome to People Analytics, Are You Sure You Want This Job?

“Men* wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition...

August 13, 2015 Chris Butler

Why are we building One Model for Human Resources

The One Model team has a huge amount of experience in the HR data and analytics field. Our careers started at Infohrm, the world’s first...

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