HR data and analytics

New and updated

• Date:

  9 April 2025

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Pay gaps research 2025

  With pay gap analysis back in the spotlight, our research examines current practice in UK organisations - including employee data collection and types of pay analysis undertaken, as well as employer readiness for ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.

• Date:

  12 December 2024

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The evolving people profession: HR departments research 2024

  The 23rd annual HR & Compliance Centre survey on HR departments presents key metrics, including the HR-to-employee ratio; explores how HR teams are transforming and evolving; and highlights HR's priorities for 2025.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: The core elements

  Enhanced by creating a series of nine guides on people analytics, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide explores what people analytics is and the benefits it can bring to organisations, and how to bring senior leaders on board to secure investment in people analytics.  

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: Data protection

  Leading practice guidance discussing how to undertake people analytics in accordance with data protection law.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: Measuring success

  Leading practice guidance discussing how to identify the return on investment in people analytics.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: Communicating and acting on the findings

  Leading practice guidance looking at how to maximise the value of people analytics, by communicating your findings effectively and helping the business to act on the findings.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: Analysing the data

  Leading practice guidance discussing how to conduct data analysis in a people analytics exercise, once the data has been collected and cleaned.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: Collecting data

  Leading practice guidance discussing how the HR team can approach gathering data once they have identified what metrics they need.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: Deciding what to measure

  Leading practice guidance discussing how to identify the metrics needed to inform the business issue being addressed with people analytics.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  People analytics: Identifying the objectives of the project

  Leading practice guide discussing how to decide what the focus of your people analytics work should be.