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HR OKRs

HR OKR examples and templates

Help your people do their best work.

HR and people team OKRs focus on hiring, engagement, onboarding, and retention. Use these examples to connect people programs to a better employee experience and a healthier organization.

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What is a good hr OKR?

A good hr OKR pairs one clear objective with two to four measurable key results the team can score every week. It describes an outcome rather than a list of activities, sets targets that are ambitious but scoreable, and is reviewed weekly so blockers surface before the quarter gets away from the team.

START WITH THE OUTCOME

What does your team want to improve?

Pick a starting point. Adjust the targets to your baseline.

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Engagement

Raise employee engagement

Make this a place people are glad to work.

Objective

Make this a place people are glad to work

  1. Increase engagement score from 65 to 75
  2. Raise pulse survey participation from 55% to 85%
  3. Close the loop on the top 3 survey themes with visible action plans in every team
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Recruiting

Hire faster without lowering the bar

Fill critical roles quickly with strong hires.

Objective

Fill critical roles quickly with strong hires

  1. Reduce time to hire from 60 days to 35 days
  2. Raise offer acceptance rate from 70% to 85%
  3. Get 90% of new hires rated 'meets or exceeds' at 6 months, up from 75%
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Engagement

Keep the people we can't afford to lose

Reduce regretted attrition.

Objective

Reduce regretted attrition

  1. Cut regretted attrition from 14% to 7% annualized
  2. Hold stay conversations with 100% of high performers, up from 20%
  3. Bring pay for critical roles to at least market median, up from 60% of roles
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Development

Build a team that keeps learning

Make learning part of everyone's quarter.

Objective

Make learning part of everyone's quarter

  1. Get 80% of employees completing at least one learning goal per quarter, up from 30%
  2. Raise internal promotion rate from 15% to 25% of filled roles
  3. Increase learning budget usage from 35% to 75%
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Development

Get new hires productive faster

Make onboarding a strength.

Objective

Make onboarding a strength

  1. Reduce time to productivity from 90 days to 60 days
  2. Raise new-hire onboarding satisfaction from 7.0 to 8.5 out of 10
  3. Cut 90-day new-hire attrition from 8% to 3%
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Development

Develop first-time managers

Give new managers what they need to lead well.

Objective

Give new managers what they need to lead well

  1. Get 100% of first-time managers through the manager program within 60 days, up from 0%
  2. Raise manager effectiveness scores from 3.4 to 4.0 out of 5
  3. Get 90% of managers holding weekly 1:1s, up from 55%
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Performance

Make performance reviews useful

Run reviews that are fair, quick and help people grow.

Objective

Run reviews that are fair, quick and drive growth

  1. Complete 100% of reviews on time, up from 70%
  2. Cut manager time per review from 4 hours to 90 minutes
  3. Raise 'my review helped me grow' agreement from 45% to 75%
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Performance

Roll out OKRs across the company

Get every team setting and tracking OKRs.

Objective

Get every team setting and tracking OKRs by next quarter

  1. Get 100% of teams publishing OKRs before the quarter starts, up from 30%
  2. Raise weekly check-in rate from 20% to 80% of key results
  3. Train 100% of managers on writing outcome-based OKRs
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Recruiting

Widen the hiring pipeline

Reach more qualified candidates from more sources.

Objective

Reach more qualified candidates from more sources

  1. Grow qualified applicants per role from 15 to 35
  2. Increase referral hires from 10% to 30% of hires
  3. Raise candidate experience score from 3.6 to 4.5 out of 5
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Operations

Answer people questions faster

Make HR support quick and self-serve.

Objective

Make HR support quick and self-serve

  1. Reduce median HR ticket response time from 3 days to 4 hours
  2. Resolve 60% of common questions through self-serve help, up from 15%
  3. Raise HR service satisfaction from 3.5 to 4.5 out of 5
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Example targets are illustrative. Set yours using your team's actual baseline.

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HR & People

Provide ongoing compliance training and education to all employees

Objective

Improve compliance knowledge and adherence

  1. Conduct monthly audit and review of compliance improvement with department managers
  2. Increase employee certification success rate by 20%
  3. Launch 2 e-learning modules covering mandatory compliance regulations
More objectives and key results

Improve compliance knowledge and adherence

  1. Conduct monthly training sessions with active participation of 90% of employees
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HR & People

Improve employee retention

Objective

Increase Employee Retention

  1. Reduce employee turnover rate by 8%
  2. Increase employee satisfaction score by 10%
  3. Increase employee referrals by 15%
More objectives and key results

Increase Employee Retention

  1. Increase employee engagement by 25%
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HR & People

Improve employee training

Objective

Create an amazing Continuous Eduction program\

  1. 10% of IT budget has been spent on training, books, or online courses
  2. Run 12 lunch & learn sessions this quarter
  3. 70% of employees have used someof their training budget
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HR & People

Roll out employee benefits

Objective

Strengthen gratification of employee benefits

  1. Roll-out benefits above industry standards (0-100%)
  2. 70% of employees have opted in for at least 1 of our programs
  3. Improve score from 6 to 8 for the 'employee benefits' section on satisfaction surveys
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HR & People

Improve employee feedback

Objective

Scale our ability to gather feedback from the team

  1. Simplify the internal blogging process from 5 to 2 steps
  2. Establish employee satisfaction score baseline with monthly
  3. Host 6 social or motivational events in line with employee selections
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HR & People

Build a superb employee onboarding program

Objective

Build a world-class employee onboarding program

  1. Reduce service desks enquiries from new hires in week-1 by 20%
  2. 100% of new recruits have their workstation setup on day 1
  3. 80% of new hires manage to complete their onboarding checklist in the first 30 days.
More objectives and key results

Build a world-class employee onboarding program

  1. Improve onboarding satisfaction score from 70% to 90%
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HR & People

Get better engagement and employee satisfaction

Objective

Improve employee engagement and satisfaction.

  1. Increase employee satisfaction survey score by 10%.
  2. Increase employee engagement survey score by 10%.
  3. Increase employee referrals by 25%.
More objectives and key results

Improve employee engagement and satisfaction.

  1. Increase employee retention rate by 5%.
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HR & People

Be the employer of choice in our industry

Objective

Become the employer of choice in our industry

  1. Reduce Time to Fill (TTF) from 60 days to 45 days
  2. Reduce Cost per Hire from $1.5K to $900
  3. Improve Employee Engagement Score from 75% to 85%
More objectives and key results

Become the employer of choice in our industry

  1. Improve Diversity Ratio (M/F) to 50:50
  2. Increase Employee Retention Rate from 45% to 70%
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How to use hr OKRs

How to use these templates

Choose the employee outcome your program should change, then use a consistent survey or workforce definition. Pair faster hiring with quality and retention measures; protect confidentiality when reviewing small groups.

01

Set your baseline. Check where you are today, then choose targets that stretch your team.

02

Agree on ownership. Give each key result a clear owner and a source of data.

03

Check in every week. Review the numbers, share confidence, and decide what needs attention.

KNOW WHAT TO MEASURE

The numbers behind your goals.

Choose a small set of KPIs to watch alongside your OKRs.

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How should I adapt these hr OKR examples?

Choose the employee outcome your program should change, then use a consistent survey or workforce definition. Pair faster hiring with quality and retention measures; protect confidentiality when reviewing small groups.

Are these targets benchmarks?

No. The numbers are illustrative planning examples, not industry benchmarks or reported customer results. Set targets using your own baseline, resources, and timeframe, and agree on how each result will be measured.