People analytics and insights

Unlock the power of your workforce through data

The power of data-led insight is transforming the way organisations make better decisions and harness the power of their people. Better data is pivotal to today’s strategic workforce planning, productivity, talent management, employee engagement and retention, performance management, agility, and mobility decisions. By using people analytics, organisations can cut through the noise and get a clear picture of what’s working and what isn’t. It takes the guesswork out of your most important workforce decisions, ensuring that you better manage people risk, match employees more smartly to jobs and are more efficient and cost-effective.

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Workforce Analytics

50% of CEOs say their organisations currently use data analytics to find and keep the right people

Do you have concerns with rising attrition rates? Can you identify the issue, or predict resignations? Do you understand how to effectively deploy your people budget? Do you have poor quality data held on disparate HR systems? Or do you want to develop a people analytics capability in your HR function?

How we can help

Our experienced team includes PhD-level industrial and organisational psychologists, statisticians, and workforce research practitioners that offer a broad range of services to help organisations make the most of their people data, including:

  • Saratoga Impact - the free-to-use benchmarking tool
  • Talent analytics and predictive services
  • Comprehensive workforce surveying
  • Talent modelling and measurement
  • Workforce analytics and strategic reporting
  • Helping you build an internal people analytics function

We help you realise your workforce potential by using the power of data-led insight to make the most of your people and deliver more value to your business. We help you to achieve three things:

Getting the right data

We help you to define, collect and aggregate people and business data from disparate sources so you can make fact-based decisions. We identify the critical data, assess the quality, and help you understand how it can be accessed. Our methods for workforce data collection include surveys, interviews, focus groups, real-time digital technologies, gamification and other engagement techniques.

Insightful analytics

We use leading technologies in conjunction with employee data to take the guesswork out of important decisions. Using statistical analyses, we assess the risks and opportunities around finance, motivation, engagement, conduct, organisational culture, behaviours and outcomes. We draw draw on the powerful analytics capabilities contained with your core HR SaaS systems such as Workday, Success Factors, to truly maximise the value they provide you. Additionally, our industry-leading benchmarking platform, Saratoga™ allows you to compare your organisation against competitors in your industry.

Effective reporting

Our approach enhances your ability to anticipate people issues that may affect your business so you can generate meaningful action plans. We help to deliver greater visibility by reporting through a range of online, cloud-based, mobile, print and real-time means. Our dashboard reporting links critical data and insightful analytics to business outcomes. We help you identify optimal demographic filters so you can view your data exactly the way you want.

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Alastair Woods

Joint Global Leader, People Analytics, PwC United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 78 3425 0359

Justin Hall

Global People Analytics Co-Leader Principal, PwC United States

Tel: +1 404 502 2300

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