Hey there! Ceci here, with our first Well Built Solutions newsletter.

We all know that Workday’s robust reporting and analytics is one of the ERP software’s biggest selling points. There are valuable insights hidden in your HR data, and with the right Workday reporting know-how, this value can be realized.

While the reporting possibilities in Workday are endless, throughout my years of helping Workday customers understand the stories that their data reveal, here’s one big takeaway:

Nothing puts a smile on your executive stakeholders’ faces as readily as trended worker reports 😏

So, for those new to trended data in Workday, let’s start with a super simple question—what is a trend?

A trend assesses how a single data point changes over time. With enough data, a trend helps you identify what’s the norm, what’s a deviation, and what’s a pattern.

For example, let’s say you create a trended chart of Terminations by Month. With this view, over time, you build an expectation that around 10 employees voluntarily leave your organization each month.

Then, you may notice something out of the ordinary—20 employees voluntarily left your organization in May! That’s 2x more than every other month! 🤔 With this visual cue, you can investigate May’s termination data to understand why it deviated from the norm.

The following year, you find that May had the most terminations AGAIN. Now, it’s a pattern, and in your third year, you can anticipate it. You’re now armed with data insights and can get proactive with your retention strategies 💪

Are you convinced that Workday’s Trended Workers data source can be of use to you?

Awesome! Let’s set it up…