Build smarter workforce with big data

Businesses are going social inside their firewalls. Whether buying a third party tool, or building their own, they're sold on the idea that giving employees a way to share their knowledge will improve everything from morale to productivity. Working on this insight, IBM has launched a big data analytics software and services to help organisations build and maintain their global workforce. The software enables business leaders to analyse massive amounts of data shared by employees and uncover work-related trends that can be used to build and preserve more productive work environments and minimise attrition.

HR executives can also use this real-time analytics to understand what drives job performance, or how employees feel about a new company policy or advertising campaign. By collecting information shared by employees such as their skills and career aspirations and pairing this with HR data, companies get a more complete analysis of their workforce.