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What is Workforce Analytics?

Workforce analytics refers to gathering and analyzing workforce data and HR analytics to uncover actionable insights into employee performance, engagement, and turnover. Managers and consultants can use analytics to enhance talent management and retention, optimize operations, and improve employee experience.

Aura’s workforce analytics platform provides companies with powerful tools and methodologies for harnessing employee and HR data to forecast future workforce trends and improve business outcomes. Business leaders access a centralized platform to track workforce insights and make informed, strategic decisions that drive lasting impact. 

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Unprecedented Workforce Analytics and insights

Gain access to highly granular, comprehensive workforce benchmarking data, refreshed monthly. Leveraging workforce analytics and regularly monitoring workforce metrics reveals previously out-of-reach insights and growth opportunities, helping you stay competitive with data-driven workforce management strategies. 

Aura’s platform supports businesses in tracking key performance indicators and diagnosing inefficiencies in workforce operations. Predictive and prescriptive analytics guide organizations toward targeted improvements, ensuring resource allocation aligns with business objectives.

Unprecedented Workforce Analytics and Insights

Drive data-driven proposals and decisions

Expand your case pipeline by delivering deeper workforce insights in client proposals with workforce analytics tools. Strengthen every sales pitch with Aura’s intuitive workforce analytics SaaS platform, complete with pre-built templates and custom reporting designed for consulting firms.

Expand your case pipeline by delivering deeper workforce insights in client proposals with workforce analytics tools. Strengthen every sales pitch with Aura’s intuitive workforce analytics SaaS platform, complete with pre-built templates and custom reporting designed for consulting firms.

Drive data-driven proposals and decisions

Speed and precision, uncompromised

Complete in-depth workforce analyses in minutes, not days. Rely on Aura’s continually updated, outside-in database—covering over 20M companies, 500M job postings, and 1B employee profiles—to deliver precise, confident insights and predictive analytics without needing internal HR analytics.

Harness the power of real-time data to provide accurate and actionable insights into workforce trends instantly. Aura’s platform eliminates delays, enabling consultants to make swift, confident decisions and deliver value to clients with unmatched precision.

Speed and precision, uncompromised

Eliminate costly manual work

Aura replaces expensive manual web scraping and data cleaning with workforce analytics software. It provides instant access to billions of curated data points across current and historical data, cutting your firm's data collection costs by up to 60%.

Streamline your processes with Aura’s automated data solutions, reducing time spent on repetitive tasks while ensuring accuracy. By eliminating manual inefficiencies, your team can focus on delivering strategic insights and driving cost-effective outcomes for clients.

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Optimize talent retention & employee engagement with Aura

The benefits of workforce analytics extend beyond HR to impact the entire organization.

  • Boosted Employee Engagement & Satisfaction: Leverage people analytics to pinpoint what drives engagement, enabling targeted initiatives that improve employee satisfaction and address employee turnover.

  • Enhanced Business Performance: HR professionals, managers, and consultants can make data-driven decisions to help increase employee productivity and streamline workflows, directly strengthening business outcomes and operational efficiency.

  • Lower Turnover, Higher Retention: Predictive insights into turnover risks enable proactive retention strategies beyond traditional tools like employee surveys, fostering a more stable workforce and enhancing talent management.

  • Informed Strategic Decision-Making: Workforce analytics equips leaders with actionable insights from key metrics like labor costs, skills gaps, and talent distribution, enabling data-driven strategies that align workforce planning with organizational goals.

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Who is Aura for?

Aura's people analytics is designed for management consultants and executives at leading global firms who aim to win more business, accelerate delivery, cut costs, and elevate analysis quality. Our clients work across diverse practices and industries, including private equity, consumer goods, and beyond.

How Does Aura Work?

Aura’s proprietary workforce analytics models, powered by AI and machine learning, synthesize over 1 billion data points from diverse public sources. Paired with internal and external sources, our continuously updated database ensures accuracy and offers reliable insights whenever needed.

What Metrics Does Aura Cover?

Aura provides comprehensive and predictive workforce analytics across 20M+ companies, covering workforce planning metrics like hiring trends, attrition rates, skill sets, geographic distribution, talent sources, educational background, employee sentiment, diversity, seniority levels, remote work opportunities, and more.

Aura enables efficient workforce strategies through data-driven insights that improve strategic decision-making in talent acquisition and development areas. It aligns workforce planning with business objectives and adapts to market shifts and changing workforce needs.

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FAQs about Aura Workforce Analytics

What is workforce analytics, and how do businesses leverage Aura?

Workforce analytics solutions analyze employee data to improve workforce planning and business operations. It’s important because it enables HR professionals and business leaders to make data-driven decisions, optimize employee retention, and align workforce goals with broader organizational objectives. Workforce analytics also plays a critical role in identifying skills gaps, future workforce trends, and opportunities for continuous improvement, ensuring better business performance across the organization.

Aura takes workforce analytics to the next level by providing AI-powered insights derived from over 1 billion data points. Its platform empowers organizations to quickly identify workforce trends, assess skills gaps, and make precise strategic decisions. With Aura, you’re not just collecting data—you’re gaining actionable intelligence to stay ahead in an ever-evolving market​​.

How does Aura’s workforce analytics improve employee retention?

By analyzing employee data and engagement surveys, workforce analytics identifies trends and retention risks. This allows HR departments to implement strategies like improved talent management, promotion opportunities, and better work-life balance. Predictive and prescriptive analytics ensure businesses can anticipate turnover risks and develop retention strategies tailored to specific employee behaviors and job satisfaction metrics.

Aura leverages real-time data and AI to pinpoint specific retention risks across organizations. Its dynamic dashboards make tracking employee sentiment and engagement easy, enabling HR teams and consultants to develop workforce retention strategies that enhance employee satisfaction and reduce turnover.

What are the different types of workforce analytics, and how does Aura deliver them?

 Workforce analytics includes descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

  • Descriptive analytics provides a summary of historical data to understand past trends.

  • Diagnostic analytics identifies the root causes of workforce challenges, such as high turnover rates.

  • Predictive analytics forecasts workforce trends to improve workforce planning and prepare for future needs.

  • Prescriptive analytics provides actionable recommendations for improving employee engagement, productivity, and business operations.

Aura’s analytics platform offers tools to streamline everything from descriptive trend analyses to prescriptive workforce strategies. It also includes raw data exports and Snowflake shares for advanced data manipulation.  

How does Aura’s workforce analytics enhance recruitment strategies?

Workforce analytics streamlines recruitment processes by providing insights into labor costs, recruitment channels, and talent distribution. This allows organizations to identify top talent, improve the hiring process, and reduce inefficiencies.

Businesses can attract high-potential employees and ensure cost-effective workforce strategies by leveraging people data and analyzing different recruitment channels.

With Aura, organizations gain insights into labor cost optimization and talent flows in and out of the business, which can effectively inform workforce recruitment and talent acquisition projects.

What key workforce metrics does Aura track to drive insights?

Workforce analytics, in general, tracks key workforce performance metrics such as retention rates, employee turnover, employee productivity, labor costs, and skills gaps.

These metrics help HR departments analyze data, align workforce strategies with organizational goals, and improve workforce management. Businesses can ensure continuous improvement and achieve better outcomes by focusing on performance metrics and actionable information.

Aura offers an intuitive platform for tracking and visualizing workforce metrics in real-time. Its dashboards provide granular insights into key areas like employee sentiment, tenure, education and demographic data, attrition rates, and skills development, ensuring that HR teams have the data they need to drive continuous improvement.

How does Aura’s platform enable smarter, data-driven decision-making?

Workforce analytics helps businesses make data-driven decisions by analyzing historical and real-time data. With better understanding of workforce data, organizations can align strategies with business goals, improve engagement, and enhance employee experience.

Designed for professional management consulting projects, Aura delivers unique insights. From forecasting workforce needs to tailoring strategies for specific market conditions, Aura equips decision-makers with tools to act with confidence and agility. Its dashboards and visualizations make even complex data easy to interpret, empowering strategic alignment across all levels.

How does Aura’s workforce analytics optimize talent management?

As a whole, workforce analytics helps HR departments optimize talent management by identifying high-potential employees, developing training programs, and improving employee engagement.

Businesses can align talent strategies with organizational goals by analyzing employee behaviors, job satisfaction, and performance metrics. Tools like retention analytics and prescriptive workforce analytics ensure businesses remain agile and competitive in addressing workforce challenges.

Aura enhances talent management by offering a robust suite of analytics tailored to uncover hidden potential within an organization. With tools for skills gap analysis, career pathing, and employee sentiment tracking, Aura empowers companies to craft targeted development programs that align with employee aspirations and organizational needs.

How can Aura improve employee engagement through workforce insights?

By leveraging workforce data, organizations can measure employee satisfaction, track progress with engagement surveys, and develop strategies to improve employee productivity. Tools like prescriptive workforce analytics and data-driven decision-making allow businesses to implement targeted initiatives that enhance the employee experience and align with business objectives.

Aura’s sentiment dashboards analyze data from online review platforms to provide deep insights into employee satisfaction and engagement. These tools enable organizations to identify key drivers of engagement and implement data-backed strategies to create a thriving workplace culture.

How does Aura’s workforce analytics foster continuous improvement for organizations?

Workforce analytics enables organizations to identify trends, analyze data, and adapt strategies for long-term success. By using diagnostic workforce analytics and actionable insights, businesses can address challenges and drive better decisions across all levels. Continuous improvement is achieved by focusing on workforce trends and aligning strategies with operational goals.

Aura champions continuous improvement through its data-driven approach, providing real-time insights that help organizations stay ahead of workforce trends. Its intuitive dashboards and comprehensive data sets empower businesses to proactively address challenges, adapt strategies, and ensure sustainable growth.

How does Aura connect workforce data to HR analytics for better results?

Workforce data provides the foundation for HR analytics, helping organizations track skills gaps, retention rates, and engagement metrics. By leveraging this data, HR professionals can implement strategies that enhance workforce planning and overall business performance.

Management strategists often use Aura's platform with HR data to develop organizational transformation projects. However, by examining over 1B external data points, users do not need internal HR analytics and data to develop insights into an organization. Raw data exports and shares provide connections for further comparative analysis.

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