AUG - SEPT 2018HR TECH OUTLOOK8Building a People Analytics Function In 2016, the company I was working for was acquired by a large Fortune 500 company looking for adjacent technology. I was leading HR technology, operations and workforce analytics at that time. I had developed a strong interest in the analytics space over the course of my career and pitched a new People Analytics function to the CHRO and VP Total Rewards. They liked the work we were doing at the acquired company in the People Analytics space and the vision I'd created. Therefore, they asked me to build out a new people analytics function. It seemed like a good opportunity to build from scratch and seemed like fun to boot, so I said yes and happily began building a plan. We launched the team in January 2017.I took the building strategy from the bottom up, going up the value stack in our corporate parlance. We started out with a data warehouse to pull together data from the different subsidiaries and different functional systems. It was important to be able to report employee data based on both a reporting hierarchy and a costing/functional hierarchy. The warehouse allowed us to do this. Initially it took two weeks to pull a basic headcount report, but within two months we could deliver multiple cuts of a standard headcount report in near real-time, with push reports going out weekly, serving over 500 users with a complete set of standard workforce reports. We also built out capabilities for custom ad-hoc reporting. IN MYOpinionMarilyn Becker, Director, People Analytics, Western DigitalByAUG - SEPT 2018HR TECH OUTLOOK8
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