Where Does People Analytics Come From?

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The history of the fields is longer than just psychology. Argubele a lot of what we call, and what i studies as operations research. Industries started applying people analytics to pretty much every one of their problems. Most firms aren't recording multiple data points. It is much harder to deal with when you've got a small population size. Weu know your h r system has one or two changes a year. If you've only got a hundred people or a hundred and 50 people, there's not much data,. You know you've got. And if you only lose five people a year, you were going to build a atritian model for that. That's wher we see

"The people" are often the most valuable asset for a company, so getting the ones who are a good fit, supporting them in their work and their careers, and figuring out what motivates (and demotivates) them is critical. And data—both quantitative and qualitative—can help with that. It's a topic we've wanted to tackle for a long time (well, Moe and Michael have; Tim was confused, as he thought it couldn't be that hard to analyze a data set consisting of a single "Do they do their f***ing job?" boolean flag), and we finally got to it, with Andrew Marritt from OrganizationView! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.