Core HR and HR Analytics

This category covers the systems and records HR runs on and the numbers it reads from them. Core HR is the day-to-day administration: one record per employee, the company structure, policies, documents and who can see what. HR analytics turns those records into answers about how many people the company has, how long they stay and what HR costs.

Start with the HR information system (HRIS), where employee data lives, and the personnel file it replaces. Employee self-service lets people update their own details, and an HR audit checks that records and policies hold up. Job evaluation and the job worth hierarchy explain how roles are ranked.

On the analytics side, HR analytics starts with headcount and average tenure, then moves to the cost of HR per employee and the ROI of HR software.

In Skailer, Core HR keeps the employee database, the org chart and the self-service portal on one record, and HR analytics reports headcount, turnover and pay from it.