Top Workplace & People Analytics Blog Posts

How to Evaluate and Defend Your Flex Work Strategy

We’re 3 years into this experiment and we’re seeing behemoths like Amazon giving up on the flex work dream. Your CEO is no doubt under pressure to defend a flex work model. So how do you go about evaluating whether flexible work is working for your org? In this post, we dive into the metrics you should use to score your organization's approach to flex work as you evaluate whether it's the right fit for your company going forward.

How to Make Hybrid Work a Success

The pandemic fundamentally changed how employees interact with each other and their leadership teams. If Hybrid Work is becoming your company's new normal, here are the 6 metrics that you should be measuring to make sure it's a success.

What Are the Best Companies Doing to Adapt to WFH?

COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented shift to work from home (WFH) for millions of people. In large part as a result of this experience, organizations are facing growing demand from employees to support more flexible or fully remote work well beyond the pandemic. It’s clear that nearly all organizations are dealing with short term...

Update: The Impact of COVID-19/WFH on Work Habits

We’re now 8 or 9 weeks into social distancing, depending on where you live. For many that means we’re over 2 months into the mass scale work from home experiment. Organizations everywhere are still working to understand and react to the major implications of this change. I’ve written about how we’re using data from productivity...

Measure How Your Organization is Adapting to WFH

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an incredibly stressful period for millions around the world. Beyond all of the human tragedy and suffering, the working world is also facing an unprecedented challenge with the shift of hundreds of millions of employees to work from home. A number of our customers have reached out asking us

Could Workplace Nudges Help Fix ONA's Biggest Problem?

It’s clear from the growing number of events, articles and multitude of new vendors in the space that organizational network analysis (ONA) is gaining real momentum. Josh Bersin recently called out ONA as one of the top disruptions in HR for 2020. It’s not hard to see why there is so much excitement. HR leaders...

Using Data To Measure How Healthy Your Teams Are

Engaged and effective teams are at the core of almost any successful organization. After all, teams are where all real work and innovation happens. A healthy team will naturally tend to have higher morale, and be more innovative and productive. Many organizations we speak with are rightfully interested in how they can use data to...

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Employee Experience

Many HR leaders are predicting that 2019 will be the year of Employee Experience [1][2]. The growing interest comes from the realization that there are huge returns to be gained from paying thoughtful attention to the design of every employee interaction. These include faster onboarding, improved engagement, increased productivity and the ability to attract and...

Designing Effective Workplace Nudges

Nudges have become a hot topic among HR folk as they promise powerful new ways to drive organizational change. In spite of this, many organizations have been slow to implement them at scale, due to the perceived complexities involved and concerns over whether they will be accepted by employees. As the number of experiments and real-world...

5 Takeaways from PAFOW Philadelphia

We attended The People Analytics – Future of Work conference in Philadelphia last week and had a fantastic time connecting with some old friends as well as meeting a variety of new faces. As always, the speakers were fantastic and we found the various sessions incredibly insightful. In case you missed the event here are...

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