Case Study: Gannett streamlines company‑wide HR reporting and accelerates executive insights with Tableau Software

Gannett HR executives leverage data to streamline and improve company-wide reporting

Gannett, the media company behind USA TODAY NETWORK, Newsquest and ReachLocal, faced a fragmented, manual HR reporting process: a 25‑page, text‑based monthly report compiled through data calls and manual updates. After the company split, a new People Analytics team was charged with creating streamlined, executive‑level reporting that could surface trends in compensation, turnover, diversity and the financial impact of actions like acquisitions or reductions in force.

The team built a single HR Executive Dashboard in Tableau, combining data from multiple systems (now sourced from Ceridian HCM) into 12 interactive dashboards with fast automatic updates, drilldowns and joined HR–Salesforce analyses. The result: vastly faster turnaround and far less manual work, clearer insight into labor spend and acquisition impacts, measurable diversity and turnover tracking against benchmarks, and improved, data‑driven decisions across the executive team.

Gannett

Dave Harmon

Chief Human Capital Officer