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What is the difference between people analytics and HR reporting?
The short answer
HR reporting describes what happened — headcount, turnover rate, time-to-fill. People analytics applies behavioral science and causal methods to explain why and prescribe action. It is a different epistemology, not a prettier chart: reporting counts, analytics infers.
The problem underneath
HR reporting describes what happened; people analytics applies behavioral science and causal methods to explain why and prescribe action — a different epistemology, not a prettier chart.
The evidence
- Eight research arcs spanning behavioral science → analytics craft
- The AI × people-analytics capability encyclopedia
- 40+ citation-grade insight cards
- The translated corpus
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