Workforce analytics

Workforce analytics is the practice of using human resources analytics to improve business decision-making.

UBC's workforce analytics team provides consulting services, delivers regular reports, and provides workforce data and advice in support of strategic planning and decision-making. The team also acts as a bridge between units within the human resources department and across the university.

Key components

  • Consulting services and analytical support in the areas of workforce analytics and reporting. We work and collaborate with partners across the university to identify client needs and provide available workforce data to support strategic decision-making on the local and university-wide levels.

  • Developing UBC’s HR core metrics, including but not limited to the distribution of employee headcount and full-time equivalent (FTE), historic trends, retention and attraction data, employee life cycle surveys, and cross-tabulation analysis by various workforce demographics. We also perform workforce analysis to inform the development and content of university-wide initiatives and plans, such as the Focus on People 2025 framework.

  • Consulting services in the area of survey methodology and design. We provide advice and expertise to partners across the university to ensure client surveys are designed to meet their intended purpose, carefully consider their audience, have actionable results, are streamlined for flow and reporting needs, and where appropriate, align with existing university-wide surveys.  

  • Core quantitative analysis of UBC's Workplace Experiences Survey, including researching new findings, providing detailed reports to distributed clients, general interpretation, qualitative analysis of comments, and advising on data validity. We also collaborate with partners to identify actions arising from the report and recommend new workplace behaviours. For more information, contact workplace.surveys@ubc.ca.

Worker location cleanup project worker-location

The workforce analytics team is conducting a cleanup project in Workday that will focus on worker location data. 

This campaign is running between November 1, 2024 – February 28, 2025. 

HR admins are asked to ensure the worker location of their staff is up to date in Workday. 

Worker location cleanup toolkit 

For detailed instructions on how to verify and update worker location in Workday, view the Worker location toolkit linked below. 

Bulk worker location spreadsheet 

If you have a larger number of employees with incorrect worker location data, you can request a bulk update via the spreadsheet linked below. Once you populate the spreadsheet, you can submit it to the Integrated Service Centre (ISC) by submitting a General Workday Support ticket (CWL required).  

Questions?

For questions about the Worker location cleanup project, contact: 

For general inquiries about Workforce Analytics, contact: 

 

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