Every stage of the employee lifecycle, measured
Retention, engagement and eNPS for every stage from onboarding to exit, with early warning signals while there is still time to act.
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What is employee lifecycle analytics?
Employee lifecycle analytics reads engagement, eNPS and retention by tenure stage, so you can see where in the journey people disengage and where they leave. In CultureMonkey it sits under Analyse, built from the lifecycle surveys that go out automatically at each stage.
- RetentionAnnual retention, and how many people are retained through each stage, from joining and separation dates.
- Engagement and eNPSFor every stage, with participation and a quarterly trend.
- DriversDriver scores for each stage, and a heatmap by team, location and manager.
- Early warning signalsCounts of silent, low-engagement and low-eNPS employees by stage. On anonymous stages, never names.
- AnonymitySegments below your anonymity threshold are hidden on every view.
The seven stages we measure
- OnboardingFirst month
- AdaptationMonths 1 to 4
- ProductivityMonths 4 to 6
- ComfortMonths 6 to 8
- GrowthMonths 8 to 10
- Burnout & Wellness18 months and on
- SeparationBefore the last day
Each stage gets its own survey, sent on tenure, and you can add custom stages. More in the employee life cycle guide.
What you can see at each stage
A single engagement score hides the month people start to drift. Reading each stage on its own shows where to step in.
One summary for the whole journey
Retention, engagement and eNPS across every stage on one screen, with a short written summary of the weakest stage and where silence concentrates.
- Annual retention with its year-on-year change, once joining and separation dates are in place.
- Engagement and eNPS across all lifecycle stages, compared with the previous period.
- The lowest-scoring teams, managers and locations at each stage, in one table.
- One Period filter for every lifecycle report, kept as you move between tabs.
Go deep on any single stage
Open a stage to see how many people made it through, how they feel, and whether it is getting better. Pair it with eNPS across the employee lifecycle.
- Retained through stage, engagement, participation and eNPS for that stage.
- Engagement over time as a quarterly trend.
- Where the stage scores highest and lowest by segment.
- Engagement and participation trends for any team, location or other group.
- Each driver's score over time, for that stage.
Find the team where a stage breaks
A stage can look fine overall and fail in one place. The driver heatmap shows each stage by team, location and manager.
- Average driver scores for every stage.
- Colour bands that show the weak cells at a glance.
- Groups below your anonymity threshold are hidden.
- Export the heatmap to Excel, with or without its colours, for the period on screen.
Early warning signals at every stage
Three signals show who may be drifting at each stage. On anonymous stages they are counts only; names appear only for stages you run as non-anonymous. They are a reason for a conversation, not a prediction. Read more on stay interviews.
- Silent: sent a lifecycle survey and did not respond, with where they cluster by team, location or manager.
- Low engagement: a stage score below your account's threshold.
- Low eNPS: detractors at that stage. Overlaps are counted once.
Close the loop on what people said
Comments stay attached to their stage, so onboarding feedback is read as onboarding feedback. Anything negative without an action is counted.
- Text responses filtered by lifecycle stage.
- Negative feedback without actions, per stage and overall.
- Action plans that start from the stage that needs them. See lifecycle survey ROI.
Managers see their own people only
Lifecycle reports follow the same rules as every CultureMonkey report. See role-based access.
- Managers see results for their own participants only.
- Anonymity thresholds apply to every stage, segment and heatmap cell.
- Reminders go to employees directly; managers never see who has not responded.
What each number tells you
Each metric answers a different question. Retention figures come from joining and separation dates; the rest come from lifecycle survey responses.
| Metric | What it tells you | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Retention rate | How many people you keep over a year | Joining and separation dates |
| Retained through stage | How many people who reached a stage stayed through it | Tenure at exit, set against each stage's window |
| Engagement by stage | How people feel at that point in their tenure | Lifecycle survey scores |
| eNPS by stage | Whether they would recommend you as an employer, at that stage | The eNPS question, promoters minus detractors |
| Participation | Whether the stage's reading is reliable | Responses against invitations sent |
| Early warning signals | How many people may be drifting | Silent, low-engagement and low-eNPS counts |
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Frequently asked questions
How is lifecycle analytics different from an engagement survey report?
Which metrics measure employee retention by stage?
What are the 7 stages of the employee lifecycle in CultureMonkey?
Does CultureMonkey predict who will leave?
Who can see lifecycle results?
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