Power BI HR dashboard is a tool that visualises the human resources data to analyse recruitment, payroll, absenteeism, overtime and other workforce management metrics. HR professionals use the Power BI HR dashboards to identify staffing issues within each department, report to management and make strategic decisions.
These are real HR dashboards we built for clients in Power BI and Tableau – not off-the-shelf templates. We design each one around your own HR systems and the metrics your team actually reports on.
We’ve built dashboards for 600+ clients, including Google, Teleperformance and Heineken.
Our Power BI developers have created HR dashboards that automatically extract data from dedicated HR systems like Workplace and Workvivo. On many projects we’ve also worked with recruitment data from CRM systems, employee satisfaction data from surveys, and training data from learning management systems.
In this article, we’ll walk through examples of custom HR dashboards we’ve built, discuss their key features and explain how clients use them.
A good HR KPI dashboard has a dedicated tab for analysing every area of operation of the human resources department.
The HR analytics needs of every organisation are slightly different, but the areas of analysis are generally the same. Below are examples of custom HR dashboards we’ve built for clients. Each one is designed around a specific organisation’s data – they’re not templates.
An HR dashboard for the CEO is a single-page executive summary that gives senior leadership a high-level view of the whole workforce without going through every operational HR tab.
The main benefits of this dashboard are:
For example, we built the Power BI executive HR dashboard below to give CEO a single view of the workforce.
The dashboard opens with the numbers leadership tends to ask for first: current headcount, cumulative hires and terminations, and the hires and terminations in the current period against the prior one. Each figure sits next to a trend line, so it is easy to see whether the workforce is growing or shrinking and how this year compares with previous ones.
From there it breaks the workforce down by location and department. The HQ versus remote split and the location map show where people are based, and the headcount by department view shows which teams carry the most people. This way, the CEO can quickly see which parts of the business carry the most cost.
The lower half of the dashboard covers the demographic picture: gender, age and race, along with a gender and age mix table. At summary level it gives leadership a fast read on the shape of the workforce for board reporting, while the detailed DEI analysis is handled on a dedicated dashboard elsewhere.
Finally, because it sits above the operational tabs, this kind of executive summary works well as the front page of a wider management reporting setup.
HR employee dashboard is designed to analyse the headcount distribution across roles, departments and demographic characteristics.
The main benefits of this dashboard are:
For example, our BI consultants created the HR metrics dashboard below to help a mid-market organisation report on its headcount to senior management.
A part of this dashboard is dedicated to understanding the background of the workforce: gender distribution, average age and education.
The Power BI HR dashboard further analyses headcount by job role and department, helping assess the human capital costs associated with each.
Average monthly income by job role insights helps to identify the most expensive job roles to employ.
Finally, the dashboard analyses the headcount by years of tenure to assess how effective the company is at retaining talent.
HR recruitment dashboard is designed to track progress towards filling the open roles and optimise the candidate sourcing process. It is usually built from the company CRM, where the hiring pipeline data is stored.
The main benefits of this dashboard are:
For example, we have built the Power BI recruitment dashboard below for a packaged holiday provider that hires a large number of seasonal workers every year.
The dashboard visualises the total number of filled and unfilled positions by job role. This way, the recruiters can clearly see what roles they need to focus on. This dashboard also shows the resorts that are most affected by the vacancies, which highlights operational risks.
The Power BI recruitment dashboard below our Power BI experts developed for a different company, but it is a good addition to the analysis we discussed previously. It breaks down the number of applications, costs and job offers by source. Crucially, it calculates the cost per application, interview and job offer by source, which helps to identify the most cost-efficient way of sourcing candidates.
HR payroll dashboard is a tool that visualises the employee compensation data to measure the full payroll costs and allocate them to specific departments, projects or business processes.
The benefits of an HR payroll dashboard are:
For example, we have built the Power BI payroll dashboard below for a security services company. This dashboard helps them measure the payroll costs for providing their services vs the invoiced revenue of these services.
The dashboard breaks down the payroll costs into wages, pension contributions and employee insurance paid by the employer.
The next page of our Power BI payroll dashboard breaks down the payroll costs by day. These payroll costs are then allocated to specific clients based on the hours of service provided by the security company.
Some team hours are invested in non-billable activities such as training. This Power BI HR dashboard shows them separately and visualises the payroll cost of those hours.
Finally, the dashboard visualises the number of hours worked by every employee and every job role to measure current demand for certain services.
HR attrition dashboard helps to measure the problem of attrition, where departed employees are not replaced for a long time, increasing the workload per employee. The key metrics in an attrition dashboard are the number of new joiners, resignations and attrition %.
The main benefits of a Power BI HR dashboard analysing attrition are:
For example, we built the Power BI attrition dashboard below for our client. This dashboard analyses the number of new joiners, resignations and the net change in the headcount. It also breaks down the headcount change by business unit between the start and the end date.
The dashboard goes on to analyse attrition % by business unit, which measures the number of people who left and haven’t been replaced in 3 months.
Finally, because of attrition, employees have to work overtime, so we also analysed which business units pay more overtime per person on an average day.
The second page of our HR attrition dashboard that you can see below is measuring the number of resignations by department, job role and reason. This analysis helps to set the recruitment priorities and highlights the main resignation reasons to address.
The number of resignations and attrition % is also analysed by month to monitor the effectiveness of measures to reduce attrition and turnover.
The final tab of this Power BI HR dashboard analyses the impact of attrition on overtime. It analyses which locations and business units have worked the most overtime hours and are due the most money for working overtime.
The dashboard also analyses overtime hours/amount per month to monitor how effectively the impact of attrition is minimised.
HR diversity dashboard is a tool that analyses the correlation between different demographic characteristics and salary or promotions.
The benefits of the HR diversity dashboard are:
For example, we have built a Power BI diversity dashboard for a recruitment agency specialising in marketing professionals. The dashboard analysed the anonymous survey data where employees of a single organisation answered questions about their seniority level and different protected characteristics such as age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc. Organisations often use anonymous employee feedback tools to gather this type of workforce sentiment while encouraging honest participation.
The first page of this HR diversity dashboard analyses the age and gender distribution. Through our analysis, we found that women have higher representation in the workplace among 25-45-year-olds, whereas men have higher representation among employees over 45. The analysis revealed a potential bias favouring the hiring of younger women while presenting increased hiring and promotion challenges for those over 45.
The next page of our Power BI HR DEI dashboard analyses the potential biases towards sexual orientation. For example, when we analysed the number of employees by sex and gender, we found that gay men make up 16% of the male workforce, whereas gay women make up close to 0%. This highlighted that the HR potentially preferred hiring gay men for DEI compliance.
You can view other pages of our Power BI diversity dashboard here.
This Tableau HR dashboard is a headcount view our BI consultants built, showing how the same kind of HR reporting works in a different tool.
It opens with the headcount at the start of the month alongside the number of resignations, new joiners and the headcount at the end of the month, then lists the specific people who joined and left that month.
From there, headcount is broken down by age, gender and nationality to give a picture of how diverse the team is.
The dashboard closes by breaking headcount down by department and showing the trend of new hires over the last 12 months. We also looked at the average tenure and average age of employees in each department, which helps spot where a team might be ageing or turning over quickly.
Every dashboard we build is shaped around one thing: your data. Before any design work starts, we look at where your HR data actually lives, whether that’s your payroll system, a recruitment CRM, your HRIS, a learning platform, or a mix of all of them. Getting this right early is what makes the final dashboard trustworthy rather than just good looking.
From there we sit down with you to work out what the dashboard actually needs to answer. Every HR team reports on slightly different things, so we focus on the metrics your managers and leadership genuinely care about instead of filling the screen with numbers nobody uses.
Once the direction is agreed, we build the dashboard in Power BI or Tableau, depending on what suits your tools and your team. We test it against your real data as we go, so what you see is accurate from day one and not just a nice looking mockup.
After it goes live, we stay involved. Data sources change, teams reorganise, and new questions come up, so we support the dashboard over time and adjust it as your needs shift. What you end up with is something built around your setup, rather than a template you have to bend to fit.
Both. We have dashboard templates we can start from to save time, but the real work is customising them around your data and the metrics your team reports on. Whether we begin from a template or from scratch, what you get is built for your organisation rather than a generic layout you have to adapt yourself. We build in either Power BI or Tableau.
We regularly pull data from systems like Workday, BambooHR, payroll platforms, recruitment CRMs and learning management systems. If your data lives somewhere, we can usually connect to it.
It depends on how many data sources are involved and how complex the reporting is. The quickest way to get a realistic timeline and quote is a short consultation call where we look at your setup.
Both do the job well. Power BI tends to suit teams already using Microsoft tools, while Tableau is often chosen for heavier visual analysis. We build in both and can advise based on what you already use.
At Vidi Corp, we have helped 600+ clients, including Google, Teleperformance and Heineken, to build their dashboards. Our data analysts would be excited to bring our experience into your project. Contact us now to discuss your requirements, or request any of these HR dashboard examples, and our Power BI consultants will start building your custom HR metric dashboard!
