Silence Isn't Value. Your HR Report Hasn't Moved a Decision in Years, and the CHRO Still Funds It

About this episode

This episode discusses the hidden costs of recurring reports in HR and the importance of evaluating their impact on team capacity.

What if the report your team spends days building every month hasn't changed a single decision in years? Nobody has asked you to stop sending it, so you read that as somebody wanting it. But silence isn't approval. It's a blank page. Every recurring report is a standing debit that nobody approved and nobody reviews, and it only moves in one direction. The work that would improve the business is what gets squeezed. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down how to tell which of the things...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jackson O. Lynch, Scott Morris

Topics covered

• HR leadership
• reporting
• team capacity
• administrative habits
• decision making

Keywords

• CHRO
• HR capacity
• recurring reports
• dashboard
• administrative tasks

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