The many issues of HR metrics

Kind of amazing how big a boondoggle this all is.

We live in a supposed era of big data -- sorry, Big Data -- right now, and as such, every team/silo/organization has to "prove it" with metrics. As a result, there's been a bunch of discussion about HR metrics of late, typically in the form of won't-happen-for-a-while concepts like "people analytics."

Logically it would make sense for HR metrics to be of…