Why Workforce Data Matters — and How Deputy Analytics Can Help
Running a business is all about decisions. When should you add another shift? Are your labour costs too high? Are certain locations consistently overstaffed or understaffed? The answers are usually hiding in your workforce data — but without the right tools, they’re almost impossible to find.
That’s the challenge so many businesses face: the data exists, but it’s either buried in spreadsheets, spread across different systems, or simply too hard to interpret. As a result, leaders often rely on gut instinct or anecdotal evidence to make crucial decisions about staffing, costs, and productivity.
Deputy Analytics changes that.
Included in every Premium and Enterprise Deputy subscription, Deputy Analytics turns your workforce data into clear, visual insights that help you make smarter decisions. Business owners, operations leaders, and frontline managers can all use it to uncover trends, reduce inefficiencies, and drive better performance, without needing to be data experts.
What happens when you don’t have visibility?
Without easy access to workforce data, your team may be making decisions in the dark. Here are a few of the most common challenges:
Missed opportunities to reduce costs
When you can’t clearly see wage costs or overtime trends, it’s easy to overspend, especially across multiple teams or locations. By the time issues are noticed, they’ve often become expensive problems.
Staffing based on guesswork, not demand
Without insights into past scheduling patterns or labour cost vs. sales, managers are left to guess how many people to schedule, leading to overstaffing, understaffing, or last-minute changes that hurt productivity and morale.
Time-consuming reporting processes
Manually building reports from spreadsheets or pulling data from multiple places wastes time and can lead to errors. And even then, it rarely gives you the full story.
Inconsistent performance across teams
Without a unified view of performance, it’s hard to identify what’s working, what’s not, and how to improve. Each manager may be operating in their own silo — and that makes it difficult to scale improvements across your business.
