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AI That Predicts People
A prediction is a claim about a population applied to one person. Six things teams predict, what the score is and is not, and how a forecast quietly makes
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People Analytics
People Analytics
Explore a more focused slice of the newsroom, with each story designed to be useful in real teams and real decisions.
The HR Dashboard That Answers a Question
Two reports disagree because headcount, start date and leaver mean different things in different places, and nobody wrote the definitions down.
Measuring Performance Without Distorting It
Every measure of an individual changes the work, because people optimise for what is counted and the counting is never the whole job.
Employee Absenteeism: Reading the Pattern Before Reacting to It
A rise in absence is almost never evenly distributed, so responding to the total means treating everybody for something happening in one place.
Time to Hire Is the Wrong Number
The cheapest way to improve time to hire is to lower the bar, which makes optimising it directly make hiring worse.
The HR Metrics That Change a Decision
The test for a metric is whether a plausible change in its value would change what somebody does next week. Six metric families reviewed against that test
The Exit Interview Data Nobody Reads, and How to Make It Land
Exit data fails at the presentation, not the collection. Six ways to turn notes into something actionable, a taxonomy that survives a year, and how to report
Regretted and Non-Regretted Attrition: Sorting Exits Before You Analyse Them
One turnover figure averages two opposite outcomes. Five ways to make the call, a definition managers will apply consistently, and what only becomes possible
Pave vs Payscale: Which Compensation Platform Fits Your Team?
Pave vs Payscale for 2026 pay benchmarking. Pave starts near $7 per employee; Payscale averages around $27,000 a year on custom enterprise terms.
ChartHop vs Visier: People Analytics Without the Six-Figure Contract
ChartHop vs Visier compared at 200, 500 and 1,000 employees, with published module pricing against quote-only six-figure annual contracts.