Episode 14: HR.com's State of People Analytics...and its (concerning) implications for AI-augmented HR

Mark Vickers, HR.com’s Chief Research Analyst & Data Wrangler - aka, the Hardest Working Man in HR Research (TM) - joins us to talk about their new report, HR.com's State of People Analytics (https://tinyurl.com/ywbpmvv8). The report’s exec summary wastes no time laying it out: “HR has an ongoing analytics problem.”  Two stats that bear this out: Only 22% of organizations feel effective in HR analytics; twice as many (44%) say their organizations are only somewhat effective or not effective at all in this area.

We discussed the decline in the use of people analytics and what’s behind it - spoiler alert: design, implementation, cultural resistance. Mark suggested strategies to reverse this trend, including starting small with meaningful metrics, leveraging existing technologies, training HR staff, and holding workshops on storytelling with data to effectively communicate insights to other parts of the organization. Naturally, we also discussed the implications this has for HR using AI to derive insights.  An enlightening, free-wheeling conversation...check it out!