Is HR getting People Analytics wrong?

Analytics offers many possibilities, but it also has implications...

Would it be useful for you to know when your employees are considering quitting? What about being able to identify the moment candidates become disengaged during recruitment? Or, imagine being able to detect the most common health issues in your organisation so you can plan ways to deal with it?

People analytics is a rapidly developing field, promising to offer you all this, and more. Companies such as Qlearsite, are using the latest research techniques in AI and machine learning to spot trends and patterns in the huge amounts of data you can store on your employees.

“Who is most likely to leave? Who will be most productive? What will be the future performance of people who have received training? Who will be most likely to be promoted? Like any scientific discovery process, we don’t place limits on the questions we can answer – accordingly our technology is built to predict all KPIs and the drivers of any recorded employee behaviour,” explains Peter Clark, Co-Founder of Qlearsite. “This flexibility is hugely powerful.”