Reference: People Analytics Terminology

People Analytics uses these terms:

People Analytics Analysis
Fiscal Schedule
Current Snapshot Period
Hierarchies
Dimensions
Attributes
People Analytics Metrics
Storyteller
Topics
Content Cards
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Insights
VIBE Index Insights
Business Questions
Suggested Business Questions
Focus Insights
Suggested Focus Insights
Visualizations
Default Data View
Refined Data View

Content available in the People Analytics application. Your People Analytics Administrator determines which configuration inputs to apply to the application configuration. These configuration inputs, the methods Storyteller uses to generate content, as well as automatic filtering determine which metrics and insights are available for analysis in the

People Analytics

report. The content refreshes on a monthly basis.

Calendar of financial periods that control accounting and reporting for your organization. It consists of fiscal periods, which are chronological intervals into which you divide the calendar. Fiscal schedules are distinct from calendar years, though the two might coincide. People Analytics enables users to analyze their data based on the fiscal schedule used by their organization. Your People Analytics Administrator configures the fiscal schedule during the configuration of the app.

Example: The 4-4-5 calendar that divides a year into 4 quarters of 13 weeks, each grouped into two 4-week periods and one 5-week period.

The fiscal period that People Analytics currently displays data for. Depending on the fiscal schedule configuration, the fiscal period may coincide with a calendar month or use custom start and end dates. When the recurrent data refresh runs following the end of a fiscal period, People Analytics loads any new data from the previous fiscal period and appends this data to the current data history, creating the data snapshot for the current period.

Example: The current snapshot period for a calendar fiscal schedule runs from April 1 to April 30. Data from April 2023 is available to view in the application in May 2023.

Example: The current snapshot period for a 4-4-5 fiscal schedule runs from March 26 to April 29. Data from this period is available to view in the application in May 2023.

Hierarchies establish relationships between organizations in Workday. Your People Analytics Administrator chooses which hierarchies and organizations to include in the application configuration. These hierarchies and organizations determine:

How Storyteller groups data into different combinations of dimensions for analysis.
How Workday enforces contextual security in the application.
Which dimensions are available to refine your Default App View.

Source fields that your People Analytics Administrator includes in the application configuration. Source fields consist of attributes and therefore dimensions consist of attributes. People Analytics uses dimensions to generate content that displays in the application and enables you to refine your default app view using the attributes of select dimensions.

Example: The source field Location is a dimension. This dimension consists of the attributes New York and Toronto.

Values of a dimension (source field).

Example: New York is an attribute of the dimension Location.

Metrics help you measure, organize, and make sense of your data. People Analytics offers out-of-the-box metrics for most topics and uses these metrics to:

Provide key performance indicators (KPIs).
Answer key business questions in the form of focus insights.

Certain metrics serve as both KPIs and answers to business questions (focus insights).

Your People Analytics Administrator determines which configuration inputs to apply to the application configuration. These inputs determine which metrics are available in the

People Analytics

report. Storyteller uses these inputs on the metric formula assigned to a given metric to calculate the metric.

Name of the automated analytical engine that uses statistical and heuristic methods to detect patterns in your people data and surface prioritized focus insights. Storyteller also calculates KPIs using the configuration inputs your administrator includes when configuring People Analytics. Storyteller does not use statistical and heuristic methods to calculate KPIs.

Content areas that provide key insights on your organization about the specific topic. Most topics also include Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). People Analytics organizes content in the user interface by topics to help you quickly uncover what's happening in your organization related to specific subject matter.

Example: Retention and Attrition

Cards in the user interface that display the details for KPIs, VIBE Index insights, focus insights, and visualizations.

KPI cards and focus insight cards consist of a top level and view more level.

Key performance indicators (KPIs) act as individual progress reports that together help you understand, at high-level, the overall health and performance of your organization. People Analytics provides an out-of-the-box set of KPIs for most topics. Each KPI uses a People Analytics metric. Your People Analytics Administrator selects which KPI metrics to display in the

People Analytics

report.

Example: The key performance indicator (KPI) High Potentials Voluntary Attrition Rate shows the percentage of high potential workers that have left the company voluntarily within the set rolling period. Understanding the population that is categorized as high potentials sheds light on potential promotion and growth within the company.

People Analytics displays the KPI metric and all included elements on a KPI card.

Trends, opportunities, and risks in your organization that you can act on. People Analytics offers insights across all topics. Insights take the form of:

VIBE Index Insights
Focus Insights
Visualizations

VIBE™ stands for Value Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity. The VIBE Index topic surfaces key outcome metrics to show where you can improve equity and parity across all people groups (intersections). These insights help you to set, achieve, and renew goals that cultivate belonging and diversity in your workplace. People Analytics uses a unique calculation schema to generate VIBE Index Insights and provides a maturity model to help organizations assess their progress in cultivating belonging and diversity.

Most topic tabs in People Analytics have a set of out-of-the-box, key workforce business questions. Focus insights answer these business questions using People Analytics metrics. The VIBE Index topic tab does not include business questions. For a complete list of business questions, see Reference: Business Questions by Topic.

Example: Business question for the topic Diversity and Inclusion: What are gaps in female representation in management?

Workday dynamically selects business questions based on usage frequency in your tenant (or the average usage of all People Analytics users if there isn't enough data in your tenant). Suggested business questions display on the

Overview

tab in the

People Analytics

report.

Most topic tabs in People Analytics have a set of out-of-the-box, key workforce business questions. Focus insights answer these business questions using People Analytics metrics. These insights help you determine where to focus your attention to action opportunities and risks that show as trends in your people data. Focus insights show how a metric is performing now in comparison to a historical point in time, or how a metric is performing in one area of the organization in comparison to another area, or to the company. People Analytics displays the focus insight and all included elements on a focus insight card.

Example: A focus insight for the business question [What are key trends in female representation?] shows you that in the last 12 months, female representation in Marketing has increased by 3.3 percentage points.

Collection of focus insights that People Analytics selects based on focus insight ranking in the Storyteller engine and People Analytics user interactions such as clicking on suggested business questions. Suggested focus insights display on the

Overview

tab in the

People Analytics

report.

Insights that provide additional context for a given business question within a topic. These graphics display data that you include in your People Analytics configuration. Visualizations do not display values calculated by Storyteller. People Analytics uses these visualization types:

Bar Chart
Heatmap
Line Chart
Waterfall

Default view of the

People Analytics

report for an individual user. People Analytics configuration determines which content comprises the default content view. For example, included topics, fields, and security settings. Additionally, People Analytics automatically filters the analysis Storyteller performs each month and displays prioritized Focus Insights in the app as part of the Default Data View. This automatic filtering excludes Focus insights with populations of 5 or less workers. You can refine the Default Data View to explore content for a particular area of your organization.

Content that the app displays after an individual user refines their Default Data View. You can refine data by selecting attributes for the dimensions in one of the two available hierarchies. Example: You select Refine Data, then select the attribute New York for the dimension Location. This Refined Data View enables you to only leave focus insights trending in the New York office in your People Analytics view. Note: Your People Analytics configuration determines which dimensions comprise either of the hierarchies. Your configuration might only include 1 hierarchy.