Saratoga Impact is a benchmarking solution that is free for participants and helps business leaders understand how they perform across key people metrics. It provides insights into headcount trends, employee costs and return on investment (ROI) by enabling functions, operating costs trends, diversity and inclusion trends, and key moments that matter throughout an employee lifecycle.
Start with Impact
In order to make the shift required, data-driven insights about the workforce are essential. But knowing what to measure and what the results mean has never been more difficult and confusing. In the noise of analytical tools, techniques and technology, we have identified four impact areas to understand the workforce.
Key insights
- Organisation Impact
- Financial Impact
- Social Impact
- Lifecycle Impact
Organisation Impact
- Shape and Size: what is the hierarchical shape of the organisation?
- Build vs Buy: what is the proportion of external hires to internal promotions?
- Talent Ecosystem: What is the use of independent contractors and supervised workers?
Saratoga: Organisational impact
Financial Impact
- Productivity: What is the return on investment for each dollar/pound spent on employees?
- Cost Out Transformation: What is the spend in each function and where are the opportunities for efficiencies?
Saratoga: Financial impact
Social Impact
- Gender diversity: What is the gender diversity profile across the entire workforce at each level?
- Broader diversity;What are the priority areas for diversity, and what is the organisation doing to create lasting change?
- ESG practices and incentives: Is executive performance measured against ESG criteria?
Saratoga: Social impact
Lifecycle Impact
- Moments that matter: What are the organisation's relative strengths and weaknesses, and are they consistent with the stated EVP?
- Reward: does the organisation reward employees through learning, progression and pay?
- Support: Does the organisation support the health and wellbeing of employees?
- Engagement: Does the value proposition translate into engaged employees?
Saratoga: Lifecycle impact
About Saratoga Impact
Saratoga Impact is a free for participants benchmarking offering. Provide your data aligned to the 4 areas of impact (Organisation Impact; Human Capital Impact; Social Impact; and Employee Impact) and in return receive a benchmarking report comparing your results to our global benchmarks as well as an industry peer group.
Benefits
- Provides a high-level diagnostic of areas in the organisation that may need attention and focus.
- Highlights overall ROI of organisational workforce and people spend (revenue per FTE).
- Compares inclusion & diversity metrics to sector peers.
- Supplies reliable benchmarks to help organisations understand if their spend relative to output/outcomes is acceptable.
- Provides external context for data-driven decisions.
- Demonstrates whether HR function is optimised to support future growth objectives.
How Saratoga Impact works
Upon registration we will send you a data submission kit which includes a data collection form for you to complete. We collect aggregate data only, in a simple to complete format. We do not collect employee level data.
Our data collection form is broken into the four impact modules: Organisation, Financial, Social and Lifecycle. You can pick and choose any combination of the modules to submit data. Therefore, if you want to start with one module only, you can. Each module has a combination of quantitative data points and qualitative questions.
In return you will receive access to an online dashboard for the modules you select, showing your data versus a Saratoga benchmarking peer. Access to this dashboard is free, providing you submit your data.
What support will I receive?
Upon registration we will send you a data submission kit which will include a data capture form, a comprehensive data dictionary, technical FAQs and access to our helpdesk for any technical questions you may have.
We also have a technical team available to support you with any technical or legal questions you may have regarding the use and storage of your data. Please note that we do not require individual employee level data to be submitted and we never publish benchmarks where specific organisational results can be identified by third parties.
