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2025 Professional Services Benchmarks: What We Learned and What’s Next?

Replicon

Each year, we sponsor the SPI Professional Services Maturity Benchmark Report , a comprehensive survey of thousands of professional services organizations. This is clearly borne out by this year’s 2025 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark. An effective way to navigate this process is by leveraging benchmarks.

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Workforce Planning Is a Team Sport: Why HR and Finance Must Join Forces

MP Wired For HR

Better Retention Through Investment Budget-aligned training and development efforts improve engagement and retention—without breaking the bank. Cross-Train Your Teams: Help HR understand P&L, and help finance understand headcount planning. Improved Forecast Accuracy Finance can’t budget for what they can’t see.

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Workforce Planning is a Team Sport: Collaborating for Success

MP Wired For HR

By incorporating workforce planning into financial models, organizations can predict costs related to hiring, training, and employee turnover, leading to more precise budgeting. A collaborative approach ensures that training programs are aligned with both the organization’s needs and the personal development goals of employees.

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Minimizing turnover risk for today’s workforce: 4 key priorities

HRExecutive

Benchmarking voluntary turnover Voluntary turnover calculates the percentage of total employees who leave an organization of their own accord. Data from APQCs Open Standards Benchmarking Database shows that at the median, organizations lose one out of every 10 employees to voluntary turnover.

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11 Important Employee Relations Metrics To Track

AIHR

68% of companies use it to identify training needs, 54% to create better employee relations policies, and 41% to identify potential inclusion and equity issues. Training feedback: Collect feedback from new hires on the onboarding and training process through surveys and interviews.

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Boost training efficiency and close skills gaps with internal HR benchmarking

HRExecutive

Benchmarking is a practice that enables organizations to create a data-driven foundation for decision-making, provides context around performance to help identify improvements and uncovers new practices for adoption across an enterprise. We find that organizations at the median take 20 days to close a skill gap.

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3 strategies to more effectively use paid time off as a productivity booster

HRExecutive

See also: How one company hopes to optimize unused paid leave Benchmarking PTO Data compiled by the American Productivity & Quality Center shows that organizations provide a median of 22 PTO days per year for each employee.