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How Standard Bank Is Enabling Data Democratisation at Scale
Data democratisation means getting people data into the hands of front line managers. Learn how the largest bank in Africa achieves it.

5 Tactics to Reduce Operating Expenses Through People Analytics
Too high OPEX may seem to demand downsizing. But you can reduce operating expenses with smart workforce analytics.

HR Glossary | What is the People Cloud?
The people cloud is a term that refers to the opportunity to combine people data with business data to make better people decisions.

SHRM 2022 Key Takeaways
What happened at 2022’s SHRM conference? Read a recap of Visier’s take of the top trends discussed at the event.

HR Glossary | What is Time to Fill?
What is time to fill? Time-to-fill is a commonly used metric in HR to track how long it takes to fill an open position.

HR Glossary | What Does Resignation Mean?
What does resignation mean? A set of reasons related to an exit that is initiated by the employee and where the departure is permanent.

HR Glossary | What is the People Impact Gap?
The People Impact Gap refers to the gap that exists between workforce data and optimized business decision-making.

Notes From the People Cloud | Cracking the Code of Employee Scheduling
Variabilities may make employee scheduling seem like an impossible problem to solve. Find out how people analytics technology can help.

Visier Launches a Monthly Resignation Rate Benchmark to Track Employee Turnover
Employee turnover has a huge effect on workforce budgets. Get the monthly resignation rate at Visier.com so you can make better decisions.

Is Rehiring the New Hiring Strategy? Boomerang Employees Say Yes
Boomerang (rehired) employees are on the rise, with many former employees returning. Learn 5 metrics to watch with this trend.

HR Glossary | What is a Recession?
What is a recession? A recession is a time of declining economic performance which can last for several months or even years.

HR Glossary | What is Reduction in Force (RIF)?
Reduction in force (RIF) is when companies reduce the number of employees through layoffs, furloughs, or terminations.

Top 5 Sessions to Watch From Visier’s 2022 Partner Summit
During Visier’s Outsmart, all our strategic and embedded partners gather for Partner Summit. Here’s a look at some of the top sessions for your watch list.

Don’t Settle for “Good Enough” HR Reporting and HR Analytics
To truly grow, here's how HR can provide the insights that allow the CEO—and all people leaders—to bring the best their people and business can achieve together.

5 Things Blocking Innovation in Your Workplace (and How to Fix Them)
What's blocking your innovation at work? Here are five common causes and how to solve for them.

Top 3 Employee Retention Tips for Purpose-driven Biotech Companies
Biotech companies need these 3 tips to focus on employee retention or risk losing top talent to competitors in the biotechnology industry.

HR Glossary | What is external hiring?
External hiring is looking outside of a company’s current employees to recruit from other sources.

HR Glossary | What is internal hiring?
Instead of looking externally for talent, internal recruiting is focused on finding talent in a company’s existing workforce.

HR Glossary | What is workforce planning?
Workforce planning involves figuring out how many workers your organization needs to support growth and ensure profitability.

HR Glossary | What is quality of hire?
Quality of hire is an assessment of value that new hires bring to the workplace and used to evaluate the talent acquisition process.

Notes From the People Cloud | Disruption to The People Supply Chain
Society has felt the impact of supply chain challenges on goods and services the past two years. But what about the disruption of the people supply chain?

Top 3 Employee Retention Tips for High-Growth Tech Companies
If the employee experience isn’t right, employees are likely to leave. Here are our top three employee retention tips for high-growth tech companies.

How The LEGO Group is Embracing People-Powered Digital Transformation
In this webinar recap, learn how the LEGO Group’s VP of People Analytics and Insights unlocked the power of people analytics for business transformation.

The Great Resignation’s Next Act: Manager Turnover
It's not just the volume of people quitting during the Great Resignation, it's who's leaving—managers. And they're taking people with them.

From Analytics to Action: Three Steps to Level Up Your Workforce Planning Strategy
People analytics transforms organizations. This gives you a guide on how to use people data to solve workforce planning issues such as retention.

HR Glossary | What is psychological safety?
What is psychological safety and how does it apply to work?

HR Glossary | What is internal recruitment?
Internal recruitment is turning to your existing employees as a source of talent for new or open positions.

HR Glossary | What is hybrid work?
Hybrid work is a work model where employees work physically on-site some of the time and from another location (e.g., their homes) at other times.

HR Glossary | What is salary compression?
Salary compression reflects the impact of wages or salary for entry-level, or low-skilled workers, and high-skilled workers trending toward each other.

HR Glossary | What is employee attrition?
Employee attrition is the loss of employees through retirement or resignation where employers decide not to refill the position.

HR Glossary | What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the use of computers to make decisions or solve problems in the same ways that humans do.

HR Glossary | What is turnover contagion?
What is turnover contagion and why should businesses care about it? We define it, plus, some recommendations to combat it.

HR Glossary | What is pay transparency?
What is pay transparency and what are its pros and cons? Plus, the legal implications and laws in place for pay transparency.

HR Glossary | What are boomerang employees?
What are boomerang employees and what are the pros and cons of hiring them? Also, how companies can support them.

HR Glossary | What is ghosting?
Ghosting, as the term is used in HR settings, refers to the sudden ending of communication between an employer and potential employee initiated by either party.

HR Glossary | What is full cycle recruiting?
Full cycle recruiting is a process whereby a single individual is responsible for overseeing the recruitment and hiring of an employee through every stage of the process.

Embedded Analytics 101: What Vendors Need to Know
Embedded analytics help HR technology vendors empower users to get the most out of their data. Find out how.

People Analytics: 4 Tips for the Journey
People analytics experts share why the current business environment has increased the gap behind frontrunners and how to move data analytics beyond HR.

HR Glossary | What is talent acquisition?
HR Glossary | What is talent acquisition? | Visier People Analytics is a cloud-based analytic application designed to answer critical workforce strategy questions.

HR Glossary | What is an employee value proposition?
An employee value proposition is a statement of the benefits that employees will experience as an employee with the company.

HR Glossary | What is analytics?
Analytics is the process of reviewing data to identify levels, trends, and patterns and to draw conclusions or make decisions based on that data.

HR Glossary | What is human resources?
HR Glossary | What is human resources? | Visier People Analytics is a cloud-based analytic application designed to answer critical workforce strategy questions.

HR Glossary | What is data visualization?
HR Glossary | What is data visualization? | Visier People Analytics is a cloud-based analytic application designed to answer critical workforce strategy questions.

HR Glossary | What is employee engagement?
Here we define employee engagement, and share how it's measured its implications on the workforce.

HR Glossary | What is compensation?
What is compensation and how does its definition vary by company? We answer those questions, plus the value employees put on compensation.

Why Employee Skills Must Be Measured
To thrive in a changing marketplace, organizations need an understanding of their skills data to make fast, accurate decisions about their people.

HR Glossary | What is succession planning?
What is succession planning and what is its important to businesses? How do you put it into practice? We answer those questions here.

HR Glossary | What is the glass ceiling?
Here we define what the glass ceiling is, where it came from, and the impacts it has on work.

Before Upskilling Your Employees, Make Sure You’ve Got the Right Data
Learn why skills data is valuable and how organizations can use it to improve their upskilling and reskilling programs.
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Holiday Wishes from Visier
Happy holidays from everyone at Visier. May your business outcomes be bright, and your data reveal useful insights. Enjoy this data visualization fireplace!

HR Glossary | What is HCAHPS?
HCAHPS, or the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, is a “national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care.”

5 Tips for Getting Started With Skills Data
Stay competitive and get the most from your workforce by leveraging your organization’s skills data.

Don’t Leave Me This Way: Retaining Top Employees
Competition for top talent has never been fiercer. Experts discuss strategies for keeping your best employees from walking out the door.

Data and Diversity: How do Companies Turn Good Will into Systemic Change?
How does data help a desire to ‘do the right thing’ manifest as systemic change? Here we share how to accelerate progress on your diversity goals.

How to Build a People Analytics Dream Team to Help Your Business Thrive
When it comes to successful people analytics, the right tech is only part of the equation. Drive impact with your organization's people strategy by building a solid people analytics team.

The Modernization of Employee Insights and Its Impact on U.S. Healthcare
The healthcare industry will face a crisis as burnout and resignations impact already short-staffed hospitals. Using people analytics to create a better employee experience will help.

Top 25 HR Leaders to Watch in 2022
HR leaders around the world rose up to meet new challenges last year. Here, we celebrate 25 of them, and learn the powers that got them through.

The 3 A’s for Recruiting More Diverse Talent
Creating more diverse teams starts with hiring more diverse candidates. These three steps make it easier to address issues in your recruiting funnel.

5 Ways to Make Diversity in the Workplace a Reality
Organisations are continuing to struggle to meet their diversity goals. Here are five ways to improve DEI within your business.

Time to Overhaul How We Work: A Q&A With Medallia’s Melissa Arronte
In this piece, Medallia's Employee Experience Practice Lead Melissa Arronte shares why right now is the best time for your company to do a refresh.

5 Ways to Develop the Right Employee Skills Plan
Skill data has become a crucial tool for companies Here are 5 innovative ways companies are using skill data to empower companies and their people.

People Analytics 101: How to Meet Business Goals with People Data
People analytics is the practice of collecting and transforming HR data to improve the way you do best. Here’s how to do it in four steps.

The HR Terms Glossary
A growing compendium of HR terms, questions, and—most importantly—their definitions.

3 Reasons Why Diversity Pledges End in Broken Promises
Building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization is imperative, but still we see organizations fail to meet their commitments.

When Vacations Aren’t Enough: New Visier Survey Finds 70% of Burnt Out Employees Would Leave Current Job
New study finds that 89% of employees have experienced burnout the past year. 70% of them said they would leave their jobs because of it.

6 Key Indicators of a High-functioning Hybrid Team
What are signs of a high-functioning hybrid team? Vivo Team Development and Visier share six that are crucial for your business success.

To Keep Service Industry Workers—Try Listening
The restaurant, retail, and hospitality sectors are struggling amid a serious labor shortage. The key to adapting and thriving? Listening to workers' needs.

Why M&A Success Starts with Historic People Data
Accurately merging two workforces using historical data from both companies is critical to M&A success. Here’s why.

3 Ways to Succeed with People Analytics, According to New Survey
A new European survey revealed three massive opportunities for people analytics–and expert-driven tips for how best to progress in each area.

How 3 Organizations Solve the Skills Challenge with People Data
Experts share how their companies use people data to address upskilling, reskilling, and empowering employees to envision their own careers.

Dynamic Engagement: Talent Acquisition for Today’s Business World
iCIMS’ Chief Evangelist Charles Mah explains his Dynamic Engagement strategy for attracting and retaining top talent. Here’s the approach.

New Research Reveals Financial Services Skills Crisis
Financial services organisations are facing a new, looming threat: high employee resignations in the next 12 months. New research dives in more.

The Power of People Analytics: A Fireside Chat with Thought Leader Stacia Garr
People analytics is mission critical for all organizations. Stacia Garr of RedThread Research shares the four layers of data for people analytics.

5 Key Takeaways From the Visier Insights: Racial/Ethnic Career Gap Report
New Visier Insights Report confirms persistence of a significant Manager Divide between underrepresented groups and their white counterparts.

The New Employee Experience: Bridging the Gap between Customer Experience and Employee Experience
At our Outsmart conference, three experts discussed the important role employee experience will play in the workforce of the future.

5 Ways Employee Experience Experts Use People Analytics
Organisations with higher employee engagement have higher profitability and lower turnover. Here are five ways to use people analytics to improve employee experience.

Top 5 Superpowers of Effective HR Leaders
HR leaders who successfully steered their organizations through the pandemic displayed these five superpowers.

Why Empathy is an HR Superpower
Empathy is an HR superpower that can be amplified with data. Here's how.

Vision is an HR Superpower You Can Cultivate—Here’s How
The pandemic forced organizations into a here-and-now operating mode, but that didn’t stop visionary HR leaders from looking ahead. Here's how they did it.

Why Strategic HR Leaders Will Stay in the Spotlight Post-Pandemic
In the years ahead, successful HR leaders will need to think on their feet while being strategic. This article describes three ways to do just that.

Daring HR Leaders Lead the Way in Effecting Real Organizational Change
Daring HR leaders dare to face uncomfortable truths about DEI challenges and chart a path forward. Find out more about this HR superpower.

As Remote and Hybrid Work Grows, Connection Becomes an HR Superpower
Connected HR leaders see the opportunity to improve the way work gets done through effective networking and collaboration. Here’s how.

SMBs, People Strategies, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Time of Rapid Growth
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects were felt especially strongly at small and mid-sized companies. Here’s how HR pros made an impact.

Making Talent Acquisition’s Job Easier with Analytics Lessons from Global Brands
Visier customers share their talent acquisition analytics lessons that helps them get clear information and insights on their hiring practices.

Adaptive Leadership and Human-Centered Design: What the Future Holds for HR
Top people analytics experts share their views on what HR can expect from a data-driven future, including adaptive leadership strategies and roles needed five years from now.

7 Reskilling Strategies That Will Futureproof Your Company
Reskilling is critical to preparing for the future so experts from Willis Towers Watson and Visier shared seven strategies you can implement today.

How SMBs Can Accelerate Growth Using Their People Data
Mid-sized businesses face a set of unique challenges on their way to growth. Here’s how analytics can help SMBs make great decisions about their people.

The Digital Revolution of HR with Jason Averbook of Leapgen
Jason Averbook, industry analyst and CEO and Co-Founder of Leapgen, shares the three areas that will help HR meet the future of work.

A Day in the Life of a Talent Acquisition Leader
Talent is crucial in a business world that’s more competitive than ever. Here’s how tomorrow’s Talent Acquisition leaders are redefining their field.

5 Areas Where People Analytics Drives Critical Impact
New survey shows the critical areas where European HR leaders see people analytics driving the most impact in their organizations.

How People Analytics Powered a $66 Billion Dollar Merger
Truist’s HR and people analytics teams share how people analytics gave them the insights needed for a smoother merger process.

Trends in Employee Resignation Rates: Watch Out for Summer 2021
Resignation rates are trending upward for Summer 2021. Managers and mid-career professionals are leading groups in employee turnover.

From Insights to Outcomes: 6 Lessons for Data-Driven CHROs
It’s not enough to simply have the numbers. Here are six best practices for CHROs who want to put their people data to work.

How People Analytics Supports Your HCM Rollout Strategy
In this Outsmart panel, people analytics practitioners from the LEGO Group, Deutsche Bank and Unilever discuss why Visier pairs well with Workday.

Uber’s Criteria for Choosing their People Analytics Solution
Uber’s Head of People Analytics, RJ Milnor, joined us for a fireside chat and shared how they use analytics to develop the highest performing workforce.

Women On the Move? New Survey Uncovers Urgent Need To Empower Female Leaders in Today’s Workforce
Empowering female leaders is critical to business success. But many women–burnt out at home and at work–are considering dropping out of the workforce.

The Future of Financial Services: Q&A on People Analytics and Workforce Planning
Strategic workforce planning and people analytics play a key role in the future of financial services. Learn more in this Q&A with industry experts.

Successful People Analytics Change Management Starts with the Right Vision and Goals
How do you maximize the value of your people analytics? Find out why setting the right vision is key to getting change management right

Framework for Leveraging People Analytics for Recruiting Diverse Talent
Recruiting diverse talent is easier with this proactive framework for finding the best way to leverage your recruiting and talent data.

Experts Share 4 Tips for People Analytics Success
Industry experts, Stela Lupushor and Nigel Dias, give advice on what to consider when learning from others in the people analytics community.

People Analytics Maturity Linked to Better Financial Performance, Research Shows
Exciting research shows the causal link between people analytics and improving the business performance of enterprise organizations.

The power of payroll data: An interview with a leader in data management, BI, and people analytics
An interview with Dave Wallis of Insperity, a leader in data management, BI, and people analytics.

Strategies for Getting the Most Out of Your Payroll Data
Enrique Sala shares how organizations can use their payroll data more strategically.

Resetting the Employee Experience in 2021
By having the right employee experience approach, organizations will be in a better position for recovery. See what actions you can take in 2021 here.

The State of Talent Acquisition today: A Global Leader in HR shares his views
In this article, Stephen Bruce, the Managing Director at PeopleFluent, shares his views on the challenges that HR leaders are facing today.

D&I Actions Your Organization Must Take in 2021
Moving the needle on diversity and inclusion hasn’t been easy. Find out what D&I actions your organization must take in 2021 in this article.

Workforce Planning in 2021: The Agility Muscle Continues to Flex
The muscle for agility that organizations needed in a year of uncertainty will continue to be crucial now and in the longer term. Learn why in this article.

Why Great HR Strategy Shouldn’t Be About Making HR Better
What is holding HR back from playing a driving strategic leadership role in the business? We share key takeaways from Dave Ulrich's HR session at Outsmart.

Diversity and Inclusion: 5 Lessons Learned from Top Companies
Want to take action to increase diversity and inclusion in your organization? Discover how successful companies are using people analytics to support D&I.

Your Guide to HR Technology Conference & Expo 2020
The annual HR Technology Conference & Expo is going digital and Visier has your definitive guide for making the most of the biggest virtual HR event.

What Are the Right Spans and Layers For Your Organization?
People anlaytics experts from Comerica and Visier share how a more thoughtful, data-driven approach for optimizing spans and layers delivers more accurate analyses.

HR Future-Proofing vs. Firefighting: 5 Strategic Workforce Planning Tips
Want to get the ball rolling on the adoption of strategic workforce planning practices and move up the maturity curve? Here is how to get there.

How Recruiting and Employer Branding Will Change During and After a Pandemic
How Recruiting and Employer Branding Will Change During and After a Pandemic | Visier People Analytics is a cloud-based analytic application designed to answer critical workforce strategy questions.

The SMB Guide to COVID-19 Restructuring: 7 Questions You Need to Ask
Here are seven questions that business leaders need to ask to prepare for a restructuring plan that will enable them to weather the storm.

Why Employee Listening Matters More than Ever–and How Data Helps
In our recent crisis management open forum, we learned how people analytics plays a key role in keeping employees engaged, happy, and safe.

How to Make Data Meaningful During a Crisis
Here is a recap of the main topics that emerged in our most recent open forum on how to use people analytics during the stages of a pandemic.

What You Can Learn About Crisis Management From the People Analytics Community
During our recent COVID-19 open forum, leading experts and practitioners in the data and analytics field shared emerging best practices for managing employee safety and business continuity.

4 Steps to Building a Business Case for D&I
How do you take the leap from knowing D&I improvement is important to doing something about it? Follow these four steps to start changing your organization.

How Gig Work Will Impact HR in 2020 and Beyond
The rise of gig work means the focus for HR will be finding tools to bring together the talent lifecycle across all the roles in your business. Here's how.

How to Create a Data-Driven Employee Retention Plan in 10 minutes
We walk through how fast and easy it is to begin building a data-driven retention plan in just 10 minutes using Visier for mid-market. Let’s get started.

Why Being Data-Driven Isn’t Enough
The problem with anything data-driven is that this concept presumes that data comes first. Find out how to refocus HR on the business of answers rather than data.

How Bosch Used Gamification to Build People Analytics Skills
HR leaders from Bosch share how gamification, sponsorship, and communication played equally important roles in their people analytics change management.

The 5 Steps of Analytics-Driven Workforce Planning
Businesses need to make sure they have the right people in the right jobs at the right time. Use these steps to analytics-driven workforce planning to help.

How Intelligent Automation Improves HR’s Business Impact
How Intelligent Automation Improves HR's Business Impact | Visier People Analytics is a cloud-based analytic application designed to answer critical workforce strategy questions.

How to Use Engagement and Performance Data in Talent Acquisition
How can you use engagement and performance data in talent acquisition? Discover four steps to there using this data to find and retain the right talent.

3 Reasons to Analyze Your Training Programs for Early-Career Professionals
Here are three learnings that you can glean from analyzing your early-career professional training programs–and applying those insights.

Success in the Future of Work: What it Means to Be Human
The future of work is a point of transition. Here's how HR and the workforce we oversee can navigate the change with confidence.

The Global Labor Trends Driving the Robot “Takeover”
Here are some of the factors driving this new future of work and the global labor trends driving the shift from human to robots and the nuances of each.

Why HR Transformation is Not the Answer
FoW - There is a flaw in the HR transformation model, one that prevents organizations from bridging the gap between HR activities and business outcomes.

Breaking Down Barriers as “the Only” Woman: Stories from Women in Banking and Energy Leadership
Gender Parity | Maryann Bruce and Sue Ortenstone share their experience of what it was like to be “the only” woman in a male-dominated industry.

Key Takeaways from Visier’s Women in Leadership Event
Women in Leadership event - Speakers from Paradigm for Parity, Ingersoll Rand, and TIAA shared key takeaways on gender equity. Here is what they said.

The New Workforce Gender Equity Factors HR Needs to Watch
The gender pay gap is more than a compensation issue. In this article, we examine the new workforce gender equity factors impacting this disparity.

3 Steps to Reskilling Retail Workers for Age of Automation
If you work in retail HR, now is the time to start thinking more analytically about reskilling retail workers and the training programs that you offer.

Strategically Managing Manufacturing Skills Gaps With Learning Analytics
To develop a learning strategy that will help you narrow the manufacturing skills gap in a way that contributes to business success, follow these steps.

Using Analytics to Link Leadership Development to Customer Satisfaction
Tracing the path from leadership development to customer satisfaction requires an analytical approach. Here is an overview of what to look for.

Four Common Tech Ageism Myths Debunked With Data
Experience and maturity are more valued in tech. We call this the “Tech Sage Age.” Here are four common tech ageism myths we debunked with the data.

5 Ways to Promote More Gender Equity in the Workplace
Improving gender equity in the workplace is an issue of incredible focus and debate. Here are some actions leaders can take to promote gender equity.

Reduce Gender Bias Using Data-Driven Performance Reviews
Gender equity is a complex and systemic issue that requires action especially in performance management. Here are ways to reduce gender bias in...

The Riveting Headcount Story That Can’t Be Ignored: Bringing HR Numbers to Life, Part 2
Visier's UX team provides a helpful step by step example of telling the story behind headcount change to avoid the headcount trap.