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Span of Control Matters: How to Optimize Your Org Structure for Efficiency and Growth
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Span of Control Matters: How to Optimize Your Org Structure for Efficiency and Growth

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December 6, 2023 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...
October 19, 2023 John Carter

Understanding Non-Revenue Employees: The Backbone of Business Success

When examining the workforce dynamics of an organization, it's common to fixate on revenue-generating roles. After all, these positions are...
September 12, 2023 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...
August 17, 2023 Phil Schrader

The One Model Difference #1: We're Your HR Data Cleansing Service

The One Model difference that really sets us apart is our ability to extract all your messy data and clean it into a standardized data...
July 21, 2023 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 10, 2023 Dennis Behrman

A Great Data Storytelling Example: Minard's Napoleon's 1812 March

Now that many of our customers have complete control and access to their data like never before, they're exploring how to tell better data...
May 31, 2023 Lauren Canada

Storytelling with Data Across the Employee Lifecycle

This infographic reveals 4 key HR metrics to strengthen your next data story, so you can prevent costly turnover and retain top talent....
May 23, 2023 Phil Schrader

Why HR teams should monitor net hires

I recently sat down with Culture Curated’s Season Chapman and Yuliana Lopez to ask them which metrics were their favourite and Yuliana said...
March 20, 2023 John Carter

8 Manager Effectiveness Metrics to Track

Effective vs. Ineffective Leaders Successful teams are measured by how well they achieve their set goals and metrics. Effective leaders use...
March 15, 2023 Phil Schrader

Urgent Report Request! What is the Cost of New Hires and Terminations?

It's an all too common scenario: a rush request coming in from the leadership team, in this case leadership in the finance department. They...
March 13, 2023 Chelsea Schott

From Theory to Practice: Using Employee Retention Metrics to Maximize Your Workforce

Retention rate and turnover rate are two distinct metrics that measure employee longevity in an organization. Understanding employee...
February 22, 2023 Josh Lemoine

Learning from Failure: Why Measuring New Hire Failure Rate is Great!

Measuring New Hire Failure Rate in an actionable way and acting on the data will save your company money. In this blog, I'm taking a look...
February 8, 2023 Phil Schrader

How to Calculate the Cost of Turnover to Combat Voluntary Resignation Reasons

Turnover is the strongest signal you get from your workforce. Someone worked here, and — for one reason or another — it didn’t work out....
January 30, 2023 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...
January 11, 2023 Jamie Strnisha

Attendance Tracking is Only the Beginning. Let's Dive into Facility Analytics.

In today's competitive business landscape, it's more important than ever for workplaces to provide value to employees, customers, and...
November 21, 2022 Phil Schrader

4 Advantages of People Analytics in a Recession

People analytics provides insight into your organisation’s workforce. Your company’s workforce is at or near the top of your organisation’s...
October 20, 2022 Stacia Damron

4 Diversity Metrics that Measure Your DE&I Success

Is your company meeting its diversity goals? More importantly, if it is, are you adequately measuring diversity and inclusion success?...
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 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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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 you"....
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 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...
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 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 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 ofOne AI. The new tool integrates cutting-edge machine learning...
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
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...
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 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...