SAGE PEOPLE, INC.
ATLANTA, GA

and review the mini guides, short help videos or user guides. Alternatively please contact your People Customer Success Manager. Please do not contact Salesforce directly as they do not provide support for Sage. Product showcase: Timesheets just keep getting better, and we’ve enhanced onboarding for successful new employee retention The first quarter for 2018 is done and dusted, and what a start to the year! We hope your first quarter was a successful one, like our new Odyssey product release. We’ve delivered new timesheet comments, enhancements to timesheet usability, and the ability to provide a strengthened onboarding experience via the admin WX portal. Our customer user events started a few years ago with a vision to inspire, educate, collaborate, and connect the Sage Business Cloud People customer community. Now with a new look, feel and name – Sage | People Xperience (SagePX) – our first SagePX event of 2018 did not disappoint. . Being a people driven company is vital to business success as you nurture and value your most important business resource, your people – and many of our customers agreed Lots of conversations covered at least one aspect of the new General Data Protection Regulation. Due to the nature of HR and dealing with highly sensitive and personal information about employees, everyone at the event unanimously raised their hand when asked if they had some involvement in their company’s GDPR strategy. During the GDPR session we asked the room to tell us what their three greatest challenges were when it comes to being ready for GDPR. You can see from the word cloud below the challenges were varied but, unsurprisingly, the sheer amount of data and multiple sources of data points entering the business is a big challenge for HR and People teams. When organizations are driven to find the right fit for new hires, everyone wins. It unlocks limitless potential — increased productivity, higher retention, happier people, more referrals, long-term brand loyalty, and boosted business performance. During our customer panel discussion on the second day of the event everyone agreed on this. Find out more about driving productivity and performance through better workforce experiences. Download our research report from 3,500 employees on HR and People teams need data to ensure they have a valid seat at the table by making evidence-based people decisions. By having the ability to show justification for hires, cuts in recruitment costs, and trends across the business, HR teams can add real value to the business. HR professionals are always keen to keep knowledge in-house so when it comes to retention numbers it’s easy to focus on the number. However, where HR and People leaders can get real insight is looking into what’s behind those numbers. Some retention losses may not always be bad for business. With the new impending GDPR rules, HR and People teams need to be thinking about communications as much as compliance. What actions are you taking to ensure your GDPR strategy is a success across your business? Of course, we all want to be part of an organization which is winning the war on talent. Once you’ve won the battle and attracted the right talent and ensure they’ve been properly onboarded, it’s about making the best use of the talent which has committed its talents to you. People analytics is a game-changer and needs to form a big part of your people strategy, if it doesn’t already. Sarah Andresen, head of People Science, Sage Business Cloud People Sarah Andresen is head of people science at Sage Business Cloud People; prior to her current position, she led benchmarking research and the development of online data-based tools at Bersin by Deloitte. She began her research career at CEB in the HR practice, eventually leading the quantitative research for CEB Recruiting Talent Advisors and the subsequent development of the Recruiter Performance Scorecard. Sarah writes extensively about the role of actionable insights in creating great workforce experiences for people and is a must-follow for anyone in HR tech and analytics. and review the mini guides, short help videos or user guides. Alternatively please contact your People Customer Success Manager. Please do not contact Salesforce directly as they do not provide support for Sage. Making the business case for Sage Business Cloud People Discover the ROI savings the Sage Business Cloud People system can deliver to your business With People Science, organizations can finally use people data to understand how and why the workforce behaves the way it does. Once they’ve an insight into how their people interact with their environment and how that affects systems and performance, they can go about making better people decisions. Find out more Context is the business’s vision, values, short and long-term business strategies and goals, from which, the talent strategy or people strategy is derived- the people component of the business strategy. Article 3 in a series of 6. The age of big data is here. We are creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day and 90% of all data today is less than two years old. Yet in this data abundant world, HR data and people data is often found wanting. For many people scientists, In the talent wars, the best recruitment tool is making your business one that everybody wants to work for. See 8 ways leading businesses are making themselves desirable employers using good workforce experiences. Good workforce experiences don’t just come from employers spending money. It’s not all about pay and perks – although obviously they help. About Sage Business Cloud People About Sage Business Cloud People Sage Business Cloud People, delivers amazing workforce experiences, so that customers can become great employer brands, increasing engagement, performance, and retention, while making it easier to acquire top talent. Company overview Our cloud HR and people system helps transform mid-sized global businesses into people companies, masters at recruiting, managing and engaging talented employees. We support the entire employment journey, integrating everything from talent acquisition to people analytics in one online system.