New CHRO survey shows confidence drops where business impact is hardest to prove—exactly where leaders need answers most
Austin, TX — February 25, 2026 — One Model, the #1 People Analytics platform for the enterprise, today announced record momentum in 2025—driven by enterprise adoption, durable retention, accelerating global go-to-market execution, and major advances in governed AI for workforce decisions.
The company’s results come as HR leaders face a widening expectation gap: boards and CEOs want clearer answers on productivity, performance, and workforce ROI, yet many CHROs say the underlying data is the least trusted. In a recent One Model CHRO survey, only about one in three CHROs said they feel highly confident in productivity data, compared with 70% who trust attrition metrics. 42% cited fragmented systems as the top barrier to reliable performance reporting, and 47% said they often rely on dashboards even when they know they’re incomplete.
“Workforce performance is the growth engine. If you can’t connect people data to outcomes, you can’t scale with confidence—period,” said Chris Butler, CEO of One Model. “Our job is to make workforce data defensible: connected across systems, governed, and usable by business leaders. The momentum we saw in 2025 reflects a market that’s done arguing about whose spreadsheet is ‘right’—and ready to run the business on facts.”
One Model is trusted by enterprise organizations including The New York Times, Dropbox, Reddit, NetJets, GE Aerospace, and the American Cancer Society.
“We now have real-time access to data that allows us to make decisions,” said Tanmay Manohar, Vice President of People Analytics & Workforce Planning, Paramount. “With One Model, I’m able to pull up data with senior leadership and say, ‘This is enough to make a decision right here in this moment.’”
During 2025, One Model received multiple industry honors, including AI Breakthrough’s 2025 ‘Ethical AI Solution of the Year’ and UNLEASH/Lighthouse Research & Advisory HR Tech Awards recognition for Practical AI and Talent Analytics impact.
One Model shipped major platform advancements in 2025 and is expanding AI-operated experiences into early 2026, including:
In addition, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services are available today, allowing secure connections between One Model-governed data and enterprise AI tools (including Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini) so customers can build internal applications and employee-facing experiences on top of governed workforce data.
One Model’s ability to provide governed, secure access to people data across dozens of integrated systems for each customer positions it to be the infrastructure for delivering workforce data and intelligence through Enterprise AI channels.
One Model’s team now spans 25 U.S. states, as well as Canada, Europe, Australia, and India—supporting enterprise customers operating across geographies, business units, and workforce types.
See our release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260312427885/en/One-Model-Reports-Record-2025-Momentum-as-CHROs-Call-Out-a-Productivity-Data-Blind-Spot
One Model is the people analytics infrastructure platform for large enterprises. The platform unifies and governs workforce data across systems, enabling trusted analytics, AI, and decision support for HR and business leaders.