Inquire

Turn workforce data into clearer insights and more confident decisions.

Inquire is an intelligent, question-led decision-support platform that helps HR professionals and business leaders explore workforce data, investigate organisational challenges, anticipate emerging trends and evaluate the impact of management decisions.

You don’t need to know which statistical method to use or how to build analytical models. Start with a question in plain English, explore the possibilities identified from your data, and let Inquire guide you towards meaningful findings and practical decisions.

From workforce data to better decisions

Ask what matters.
Start with a business question or explore suggested areas of investigation based on your workforce data. Whether you want to understand employee turnover, compensation patterns, performance differences, workforce costs or employee engagement, Inquire helps you frame the right questions.

Discover what the data reveals.
Explore patterns, relationships, differences and emerging trends. Investigate the factors associated with organisational outcomes, identify areas requiring attention and understand what may be driving the results.

Look beyond the obvious.
Go beyond averages and headline numbers. Examine differences across departments, grades and employee groups, explore underlying patterns, and bring employee feedback into the picture.

Evaluate decisions before implementing them.
Explore workforce scenarios, forecast potential outcomes, assess the financial implications of HR initiatives and evaluate whether policies and interventions are delivering the intended results.

Translate findings into action.
Every investigation is designed to help you understand what was examined, what the findings mean, how reliable they are, what cannot be concluded and what management could consider doing next.

Your questions define the analysis. Not predefined categories.

Every organisation has different workforce challenges. And often, the most important questions are the ones that don’t fit neatly into a predefined analytics category.

With Inquire, you can start with a question, a business concern or an observation. Inquire examines the available data, identifies relevant analytical possibilities and helps you investigate what the data may reveal.

You can explore relationships, compare groups, examine trends, investigate potential drivers, test assumptions, forecast possible outcomes and evaluate alternative decisions.

You don’t need to know which statistical method to use or even what analysis is possible. Start with what you want to understand. Inquire helps you work out how to investigate it.

Your questions set the direction. Your organisational context gives the analysis meaning. Your judgement guides the decisions.

Some examples of questions you can ask

• Compensation & Total Rewards: Understand pay distribution, internal equity, salary progression, compensation positioning and increase budgets.
• Employee Retention: Investigate turnover patterns, identify potential flight-risk factors and evaluate retention interventions.
• Performance & Productivity: Explore performance differences, productivity drivers, training outcomes and managerial effectiveness.
• Employee Engagement & Culture: Examine engagement patterns, employee feedback, workplace concerns and potential drivers of burnout.
• Workforce Planning: Track headcount trends, examine workforce costs and explore future workforce requirements.
• Talent Acquisition: Investigate recruitment efficiency, hiring costs and relationships between recruitment practices and outcomes.
• Policy & Intervention Evaluation: Assess the impact of management initiatives and policy changes using evidence rather than relying solely on before-and-after comparisons.
• Budgeting & Financial Decisions: Simulate salary increases, payroll growth, retention investments and the financial implications of alternative decisions.

Designed for HR professionals, not statisticians

Inquire makes analytical exploration accessible to HR professionals, regardless of their statistical background.

You can work with familiar workforce spreadsheets, ask questions in everyday business language and explore findings through interactive visualisations and straightforward explanations.

Inquire takes care of the analytical calculations while helping you understand the assumptions, limitations and implications behind the results. You remain in control of the organisational context and the decisions that follow.

Greater confidence in sensitive workforce decisions

Workforce decisions require more than interesting charts or impressive numbers. They require context, methodological care and respect for employee confidentiality.

Inquire incorporates analytical checks, subgroup comparisons, reliability indicators and small-group privacy safeguards to help reduce the risk of misleading conclusions and inappropriate disclosure.

Your findings are presented in a format that can be reviewed, retained and shared through executive-ready reports.

Make your workforce data work harder.

You already have workforce data. The opportunity lies in asking better questions, discovering what it can reveal and using those insights to make better organisational decisions.

Inquire. Ask questions. Discover what your workforce data reveals.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Inquire, and how does it help HR professionals?

Inquire is a question-led people analytics and workforce intelligence platform that helps HR professionals investigate organisational questions using their workforce data. Instead of being restricted to predefined reports or dashboards, you can ask questions in everyday language, explore what your data reveals, investigate relationships and trends, and evaluate possible courses of action. It makes advanced workforce analysis more accessible without requiring a background in statistics or data science.

2. How is Inquire different from traditional HR analytics tools and dashboards?

Traditional HR analytics tools often focus on predefined metrics, reports and visualisations. Inquire takes a different approach. You start with a question or business concern, and the analytical engine helps identify what can be investigated using your data. This allows you to explore questions that may not have been anticipated when the software was designed. It moves beyond reporting what happened towards investigating why patterns may exist, what could happen next, and what different decisions might mean.

3. Do I need statistical or data science knowledge to use Inquire?

No. Inquire is designed to make workforce analytics accessible to HR professionals, business leaders and decision-makers who may not have a statistical background. You can ask questions in plain English. The platform helps determine appropriate analytical approaches, performs the calculations and explains the findings in understandable business language. You can focus on the organisational question rather than the mathematics behind the analysis.

4. What types of questions can I investigate using Inquire?

You are not limited to a fixed list of HR analytics questions. You can investigate questions relating to compensation, employee retention, engagement, performance, productivity, recruitment, workforce costs, organisational trends and many other areas. You can also explore relationships between variables, compare employee groups, investigate potential drivers of outcomes, examine qualitative feedback and evaluate alternative scenarios. The questions you can investigate depend on the data available and its suitability for the analysis.

5. Can Inquire identify analytical opportunities that I may not have thought of?

Yes. Inquire does more than respond to questions you already know how to ask. It examines the available data, identifies relevant variables and potential relationships, and suggests possible lines of investigation. This can help HR professionals discover analytical opportunities they might otherwise overlook. You remain in control of which questions to pursue and how the findings should be interpreted in the organisational context.

6. Can Inquire help with predictive HR analytics and workforce forecasting?

Inquire supports suitable predictive and forecasting investigations using available workforce data. Depending on the question and data quality, this can include examining employee trends, estimating potential outcomes, exploring retention patterns, forecasting workforce requirements and evaluating possible future scenarios. Forecasts are analytical estimates, not guarantees; their usefulness depends on the quality, relevance and limitations of the underlying data.

7. Can I use Inquire for compensation and Total Rewards analysis?

Yes. You can investigate a wide range of compensation and Total Rewards questions, including pay differences, compensation structures, employee costs, reward allocation, pay equity and the potential implications of alternative compensation decisions. Rather than relying only on predefined compensation reports, you can frame the specific question you want to investigate and explore what your data can tell you.

8. Can Inquire analyse employee feedback and qualitative data?

Inquire can help investigate qualitative information such as employee comments and feedback, where the available data and format are suitable. It can help identify recurring themes, patterns and differences in employee perspectives, allowing you to explore what employees may be communicating beyond numerical survey scores.

9. Can I evaluate the potential impact of a proposed HR policy or intervention before implementing it?

Inquire can help examine historical patterns, explore relationships and model suitable scenarios to assess the potential implications of proposed HR decisions. For example, you can investigate alternative compensation allocations, workforce budgets or retention interventions. Where appropriate data is available, it can also help evaluate changes over time. These analyses support better-informed decisions, but simulated outcomes should not be treated as guaranteed results.

10. How reliable are the analytical findings generated by Inquire?

The reliability of an analytical finding depends on the quality and suitability of the underlying data, the analytical method used and the assumptions involved. Inquire is designed to help users understand the findings alongside relevant limitations and considerations. It supports informed investigation and decision-making; it does not replace organisational knowledge, professional judgement or appropriate validation.

11. Who should use Inquire?

Inquire is designed for HR professionals, People & Culture leaders, HR business partners, Total Rewards and compensation teams, talent acquisition professionals, workforce planners and business leaders. It is particularly useful for people who need to make sense of workforce data but do not necessarily have specialist statistical or data science expertise.

12. Do I need to know in advance what analysis to perform?

No. That is one of the central ideas behind Inquire. You do not need to know which statistical technique to use, which variables to examine or even what analytical possibilities exist in your data. You can begin with a business question or observation. Inquire helps identify possible ways to investigate it, while your organisational context and judgement guide the analysis and the decisions that follow.