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Useful HR Reports That Drive Smarter Decisions

Written by Eric Jones | Aug 26, 2025 12:00:00 PM

HR reports turn everyday workforce data into clear, actionable insights. By tracking hiring trends, turnover, and benefits usage, you can strengthen workplace culture, improve retention, and make better business decisions. With Workforce PayHub’s integrated system, you’ll see the full picture of your employee trends, helping you plan smarter and act faster.

Track and Improve Your Time to Hire

The ‘time to hire’ metric tracks how long it takes between a candidate applying for a position and when they accept an offer. Keeping an eye on this metric provides you with great insight into your hiring process. You will see how efficiently your recruiting and HR teams work and how much time and money they need to find quality candidates to fill openings at your business.

In Workforce PayHub, Time to Hire data appears in both chart and table formats, showing the role, application date, hire date, and current employee status. You can sort by location to evaluate specific hiring processes and see at a glance how quickly candidates move through the pipeline.

 

Reduce Turnover with Retention Insights

Tracking turnover and retention rates reveals why employees leave and helps you make targeted improvements to the employee experience.

To collect this information effectively, you want to gather a complete picture. This means looking at:

  • Why people were terminated
  • The reasons people gave for leaving
  • The typical duration of service

Gathering this information and segmenting it by department or business location can empower you to drill down into the details of your team culture. You can see how employee satisfaction and performance differ between locations, so you can make more effective adjustments.

To help you summarize these metrics, calculate your turnover rate regularly. This rate is simply the number of separations your business has during a given time period divided by the average number of employees times 100.

Monitor and Respond to Benefits Change Requests

Employee benefits packages are critical for building strong employee cultures. Employees want to know that the businesses where they work value them and their contributions. One of the best ways to let people know that their workplace values them is through the benefits package. These types of compensation often include a variety of different formats, including pay, healthcare, and time off, but many employers will offer extras such as educational opportunities.

Regulations around wages, overtime, and leave can shape your benefits package, but employee feedback is just as important. Tracking benefits change requests shows which perks employees value most, highlights gaps in your offerings, and ensures no request falls through the cracks.

Tracking benefits change requests shows which perks employees value most, highlights gaps in your offerings, and ensures no request falls through the cracks. Record what benefits people use, related HR conversations, and how often change requests occur—centralized tracking ensures nothing slips through.

Choosing Between Centralized and Piecemeal HR Reporting

Before you start building your HR reporting process, decide whether to use multiple standalone tools or an all-in-one platform. Each has trade-offs:

Piecemeal Approach – Pros:

  • Specialized features for specific report types
  • Greater customization of the data you collect

Piecemeal Approach – Cons:

  • Data lives in separate systems, making it harder to see the big picture
  • More manual setup and maintenance
  • Steeper learning curve for your team

Centralized Approach – Pros:

  • All payroll, HR, and benefits data in one place
    Easier compliance tracking with consistent reporting
  • Faster setup and simpler implementation

Centralized Approach – Cons:

  • Less customization than highly specialized tools (though most unified platforms still offer robust reporting options)

Workforce PayHub’s all-in-one platform brings your payroll, HR, and benefits together—making it easier to track key workforce metrics, spot trends, and act quickly.

 

Conclusion: Improving operations with HR reports

The right HR reports do more than track metrics—they help you spot issues early, improve retention, and stay compliant. With Workforce PayHub, all your key data lives in one place, ready to guide your next move.  Request a demo today and see how streamlined reporting can transform your workforce decisions.