Analytics can help you answer questions and solve problems in your organization — maybe a number of your high performers have been leaving lately and you want to know why. To use analytics effectively to answer those questions, you need to know what to measure. How do you know what to measure? A few standard metrics that companies often track include turnover, absentee rate, employee engagement, training ROI, and time to fill. But each organization is different, and a key metric for one company may not be as important for your organization.