Workforce Analytics
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HR Policy Association Takes Down SHRM’s Human Capital Metrics Standard
The association's continuing opposition to guidelines for human capital metrics means the standard will likely never make it to an American National Standards Institute review.
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HealthPass New York Selects Bswift to Provide Exchange Technology, Services
Bswift Inc. will provide HealthPass New York clients and members with functions and capabilities including reporting tools, dashboards and alerts for employers, as well as shopping tools, decision and enrollment support for employees.
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Learning Contributes Directly to Bottom Line: Study
Oakland, California-based research firm Bersin & Associates says companies with a sophisticated approach to employee development averaged three times higher revenue growth from 2008 to 2011.
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Big Data’s Big Promise
Every software provider in the industry wants to be the one to help companies with workforce analytics.
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ADP Pushes Further into HR Software
ADP is making more noise in an HR software market that has heated up dramatically in the past year.
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Tracking True Cost of Lost Productivity Remains a Challenge
Large, sophisticated employers are struggling to track and measure how much the lost productivity resulting from employee absences and presenteeism costs their companies.
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Data Bank Focus: HR Analytics: Broad Use, Broad Frustration
The burgeoning amount of data available to human resources professionals provides a new opportunity to more effectively manage the workforce. A recent survey of employers, reported by Visier Inc.
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In Search of a Standard Measure of Talent
Under SHRM's draft human capital metrics standard, companies would report on topics including spending on training and development, ability to retain talent, leadership quality and employee engagement.
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Putting a Dollar Value on Talent
How a former chief financial officer is linking human capital metrics to bottom-line results.
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Corporate Executive Board to Buy Assessment Vendor SHL for $660 Million
The proposed deal, expected to close in August, boosts the management consulting firm's position as a 'big data' provider in a nearly $4 billion global talent management industry.
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It's About Time—and Money
Workforce management technology has come a long way from time clocks. Today's tools can save—or cost—companies millions. And thanks to a new group, the once-frumpy field is coming into fashion.
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Survey: Crowd Sourcing a Second Job for Many
Crowd sourcing can involve breaking up a large task such as validating data or translation into many small tasks and farming them out to numerous workers online instead of hiring a single worker or small number of workers to do the single large task.
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ADP Bets Big on HR Software by Adding Suite of Services
The traditional back-office service provider joins the likes of Oracle, SAP and SuccessFactors in a crowded HR management software field with the unveiling of Vantage HCM.
