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Wausau HR Committee to replace spreadsheet-based report with Workday dashboards
Summary
Wausau’s HR director told the HR Committee the current spreadsheet-based HR report is being replaced with validated dashboards fed from Workday, promising trend data, payroll and overtime by department and workers' compensation counts by next month.
Director Nowak told the Wausau HR Committee that the HR report previously provided to members was "homegrown off of spreadsheets and manual data compilation" and did not always reflect personnel movements across the city. She said she has been working with IT and finance to validate data coming from the city's Workday platform and that dashboards are in place but "not clean yet." She told the committee she hopes the validated dashboards will be ready by next month.
"Once that is done, which I'm hoping by next month, you'll see a completely different HR report with data that I feel you'll find useful, like trends instead of point in time report outs," Director Nowak said. She described planned content including payroll information by department, overtime data and other metrics intended to help "tell the story of what's happening with the city of Wausau from a city hall perspective." She added that the report will be fluid and that the committee can request additions or removals: "If something just isn't looking right or you don't enjoy it or you don't find it fruitful, then I am happy to change, add, remove, whatever you would like to see. This is for your consumption."
Alder Martins welcomed the overhaul, saying the existing report "has grown to be an albatross over the years" and has accrued too many items. Martins urged the committee to preserve high-level metrics he uses to oversee personnel, specifically naming overtime, payroll and workers' compensation claims.
"I don't necessarily need that level of detail," Martins said, "but I wanna know, you know, about the number of claims and if it's something that causes lost time." Director Nowak agreed those counts would be included and reiterated that the committee can request format or content changes.
The committee did not take any formal action on the report during the public session. The meeting moved into a closed session later in the agenda for a personnel matter; the committee did not return to public session.
