The metrics a 50 person company should actually track
Theo Kela
Operations Lead
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7 min read
The handful of people metrics a growing team should track.
Five that matter
At fifty people you don’t need a dashboard the size of a wall. Track time-to-productivity, voluntary attrition, absence trends, offer-acceptance rate, and onboarding completion. Everything else is noise until it isn’t.
The point of a metric is a decision it changes. If a number wouldn’t alter what you do next, stop reporting it.
Ignore the vanity
Headcount growth, tool adoption, survey response rates, comforting to watch, rarely useful to act on.
Written by
Theo Kela
Operations Lead at Northwind. Turns messy people processes into systems that run themselves, then writes down what worked.
