Interview: “We certainly had an early mover advantage,” says ADP’s Steve Hardy

ADP has had a long-standing relationship with the Cloud – they launched their first cloud service in 1998, three years before the term ‘Software as a Service’ was even coined. Steve Hardy, Vice President, National and Multinational Strategy and Marketing at ADP says that this afforded the business an “early mover advantage”. In an interview with […]

CIPD HR Analytics conference: key takeaways

On Wednesday 12th March the CIPD held their annual HR Analytics conference in London. The event was attended by HR directors at various stages of readiness for bringing analytics capability into their organisations. The speakers offered a mix of both theoretical insight and practical advice. The event culminated in a talk from CIPD CEO Peter […]

LIVE COVERAGE: CIPD HR Analytics 2014 conference

How can you better use people metrics in your organisation? What do you need to know about HR analytics and what it will bring to business? On Wednesday February 12th these questions will be answered at the CIPD’s HR Analytics Conference 2014, held near King’s Cross, London. HRZone will be in attendance and will be […]

The way you think about leadership is broken

Most people think about leadership in an archaic way. And as much as I don’t mean to point the finger, chances are, you’re one of them. Frankly, the entire leadership belief system needs upending. Until we – as people in businesses up and down the country, up and down the corporate ladder – make some […]

Analysing analytics: what does big data mean for HR?

“The net of delusion is being cast ever wider, as we are bombarded with more and more information masquerading as knowledge, more and more material for the calculus, which far outruns our ability to sift it into truth and falsehood.” (Robert Skidelsky, January 2014, on economics and information). The problem As with any significant technological […]

Interview: Mick Collins, Principal Consultant, SuccessFactors

Mick Collins is the Principal Consultant for Workforce Analytics & Planning at SuccessFactors, an SAP Company. In his role, Mick leads a global team and provides consulting services to multiple clients including Fortune 500 firms in the retail, publishing and consumer products sectors. He has extensive experience in public speaking and regularly participates at some […]

Tips for creating a data-driven HR strategy

Big data can be used in many ways by companies of different sizes to analyse and share meaningful HR insights that help inform HR strategy and positively impact the business. However, big data strategies can be difficult to implement. The advancement of mobile technology enables information to be accessed, evaluated and shared anywhere, anytime. As […]

Going, going, gone? How to keep a lid on workplace data

The risk of unmanaged data being lost or stolen has never been so great. What can employers do to make sure we protect the data in our business? Have you ever noticed the ill-matched absurdities of on the one hand, the Data Protection Act (one of the most misunderstood, misused, misquoted pieces of legislation I […]

Big Data and talent acquisition – what’s the link?

This article was written by David Bernstein, Vice President of Big Data for eQuest.   You can’t throw a rock in the business world these days without hitting the topic of Big Data. Why?   Because it’s the key to impacting business results. As Virginia Rometty, Chairman and CEO of IBM, recently stated, “Data will be […]

Legal guidance: protecting company information in the cloud-era

This article was written by Sophie Vanhegan, employment solicitor at GQ Employment Law LLP. Recent years have seen dramatic changes to the use of technology in the workplace, creating new potential avenues for employees to steal sensitive data and, consequently, a growing headache for HR teams. One of the latest challenges is the growth of […]

Poor data hampers HR’s boardroom reputation

HR risks losing boardroom credibility as their “rear view mirror” approach to analytics fails to provide useful business insight, a KPMG white paper warns.   Too anchored in the present and past, too generic and too operational – these are  just some of the charges outlined against HR’s application of analytics in the white paper, […]

Social media not delivering strategic HR results

Organisations are not achieving the full potential of Big Data and social media as part of their HR strategies and need to re-examine their policies surrounding such tools.    That’s one of the conclusions of the Global Assessment Trends Report, a study based on the results of an online survey conducted in late 2012
and completed […]

Technology: employees need to understand the crime of stealing data

 Businesses must step up efforts to protect their corporate data, as most UK workers believe it’s perfectly acceptable to transfer confidential intellectual property to a new employer when they leave.    More than half of the UK employees in a survey by IT security firm Symantec admitted to stealing corporate information when they left an […]

News: Top 10 professions most likely to be caught speeding unveiled

Chief executives, surgeons and barristers are among the top 10 professions most likely to be caught speeding, with an apparently direct correlation existing between having a high-powered job and the likelihood of committing an offence. According to an analysis of 14 million car insurance quotes given last year and analysed by MoneySupermarket.com, it emerged that […]

Talent management in a post-recession world

The UK may have officially emerged from recession towards the end of last year, but many employers are still worried about the stability of their workforce – especially if greater business confidence and improving job opportunities make it more likely that talented staff will start jumping ship. In our HR 2012 Salary and Market Insight […]

Blog: 2013 – A new HR business model emerges

“HR must have the knowledge of the organization’s P&L, but more importantly, they should develop a people P&L.” This was a statement by Cynthia Trudell, Executive Vice President Human Resources & Chief Human Resources Officer of Pepsico.   Before Christmas in New York there was an event called the HR Leadership Summit (built “by HR Execs, for […]

The HRZone Interview: David Frost on sickness absence

Every year, around 11 million workers call in sick and 140 million days are lost to sickness absence. The economic cost of ill-health is estimated to be a staggering £100 billion.   Moreover, each year around 300,000 employees will not return to work, joining the benefits system instead. Not surprisingly, the government is keen to […]

That was the HR year that was

If it were possible to sum up a year in a single word, that word in 2012 might be ‘austerity’ – a word that means many things to many people, but which basically amounts to hard times for great swathes of the population. In economic terms, austerity refers to a policy of lowering expenditure by […]

Analysis: “We don’t plan on screwing up”, says Workday CEO

With Workday’s long-awaited stock market floatation behind it, the Software-as-a-Service provider is now looking to the next 12 months and beyond. Plans for growth include the introduction of a recruiting module and a push into the world of so-called ‘big data’ (the ability to analyse lots of complex data quickly).   The firm unveiled its […]

The emerging discipline of workforce planning

The job of managing the workforce is growing in complexity. At one end of the spectrum, demanding Millennials are now entering the world of employment for the first time, while at the other, growing numbers of employees are choosing to work past the age of 65.   In between these two extremes, however, you will […]