HR Dashboard

Find insights that improve employee recruitment, satisfaction and retention. This guide provides templates and examples to help you move beyond monitoring and reporting and create a best-in-class HR dashboard of your own.

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What is an HR Dashboard?

An HR dashboard is a business intelligence tool that allows Human Resource teams to track, analyze and report on HR KPIs. Modern, interactive dashboards leverage an HR analytics platform which makes it easy to combine data from all systems and to deeply explore this data directly within the dashboard. This way, HR teams can quickly find insights that will improve recruiting, optimize workplace management and enhance employee performance.

HR Dashboard Examples

Below are 7 key HR dashboard examples. Sophisticated people analytics make it simple for you to create your own custom dashboards like the ones below and for other popular metrics not shown here, such as recruiting or safety and health. Click through each example to explore the full capabilities of a modern HR dashboard.

Executive HR Dashboard

Human resource executives need to be able to quickly review and analyze all critical KPIs in one place. This example displays high-level metrics such as employees by role and by location and key ratios such as gender and training.

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An executive HR dashboard provides all critical KPIs in one place and the ability to drill into the data

Employee Performance Dashboard

Employee performance dashboards help HR teams and business managers understand the effectiveness, satisfaction and goal progress of their workforce. To analyze compensation vs. performance this example shows the number of active employees by rating level and salary by employee rating.

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An employee performance HR dashboard shows the effectiveness, satisfaction and goal progress of the workforce.

Employee Development Dashboard

Employees are the most important asset within an organization. This HR dashboard example shows an HR leader training program metrics such as completion percentage, hours and cost. Interactive charts allow the user to break out data by dimensions like department, program, gender and more.

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Qlik Sense dashboard displaying Employee Development data with charts and tables showing training progress, hours, competition by department and programs, and breakdowns by job family, values, and gender.

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Workforce Demographics Dashboard

HR executives strive to maintain a diverse and balanced workforce, so they need to fully understand the demographic characteristics of their employees. This HR dashboard template allows them to deeply analyze data on age, gender, location, department and ethnic groups.

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An workforce demographics HR dashboard allows the user to analyze data on age, gender, location, department and ethnic groups.

Workforce Diversity Dashboard

Using an interactive dashboard, HR professionals can dig deeper into demographic data and analyze one variable, such as ethnic diversity. This example shows the number of employees for each ethnicity and breaks out the data by country and by salary.

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A workforce diversity KPI report shows demographic data to optimize for inclusion.

Women in the Workforce Dashboard

An HR professional can use a dashboard to analyze how one particular group is represented in the workforce. This example shows how data visualization helps convey overall gender data and the break out by job role, by country, and in management.

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An HR dashboard helps convey overall gender data and the break out by job role, by country, and in management.

Gender Salary Comparison Dashboard

Following on the previous example, HR professionals can use an interactive dashboard to dig deeper in the data, and analyze one variable. In this example, average salary is compared by gender and broken out by management positions, employee tenure and country.

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A gender salary comparison dashboard breaks out data by management positions, employee tenure and country.

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Key Capabilities of an HR Dashboard

The best HR dashboards do much more than KPI tracking and data visualization. Here are key capabilities to keep in mind as you find the right HR dashboard tool for you:

  • Fully interactive. Leverage powerful HR data analytics directly on the dashboard itself to explore and analyze data.

  • All data sources. Easily combine and analyze data from all people analytics systems and apps: HCM, payroll, compliance, recruiting, learning, LOB and more.

  • Augmented Analytics (AI). One of the top 10 BI and data trends this year, modern dashboards are now highly contextualized with AI and alerting. And they’re becoming highly collaborative, maturing into a hub that catalogs insights and distributed data.

  • Automated Alerts and Reporting. Set up your HR dashboard to be automatically shared with key stakeholders on a regular basis and to send you alerts based on KPIs.

  • Built for Mobile. Dig into your dashboards with full interactive cloud analytics functionality and touch screen optimization from any device.

  • Simple Data Prep. An interactive HR dashboard that’s part of a modern people analytics platform will let you spend less time preparing data and more time identifying ways to better manage staffing, development, compensation, safety and health, and employee and labor relations.

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HR Dashboard KPIs

The right set of key performance indicators (KPIs) allows for faster, more organized review and analysis of your workforce. To help you get started on your own HR analytics dashboards, listed below are metrics you should consider for 3 main areas: workforce management, compensation and recruitment.

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