Designing an interactive workspace for enterprise HR teams to plan and manage workforce changes.
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IMAPCT
Web Platform
TEAM
2023
Compport is an enterprise compensation management platform that helps organizations manage compensation, promotions, bonuses, and workforce planning from a single platform.
As organizations grow, so do their reporting structures. HR teams need to understand how employees, managers, and departments are connected before making workforce decisions.
Despite supporting key HR workflows, the platform lacked an Org Chart. HR managers had to navigate multiple employee profiles to understand who reports to whom, making promotions, transfers, reporting changes, and terminations slower than they needed to be.
HR managers had to navigate multiple employee profiles just to understand reporting relationships. Answering "Who reports to whom?" was more difficult than it should have been.
Promotions, employee transfers, manager changes, and terminations were performed from individual employee pages. Without seeing the bigger picture, it was difficult to understand how these changes affected the organization.
Managing vacancies, restructuring teams, or planning future hires required switching between different views. There was no single workspace for workforce planning.
Large enterprise organizations can have thousands of employees across departments and locations. Without search, filters, or a navigable hierarchy, exploring the organization became slow and overwhelming.
Every customer conversation uncovered a different scenario, but the underlying challenge remained the same—HR teams lacked the visibility needed to confidently manage organizational changes.
Before exploring solutions, we aligned on three goals that would help HR teams make workforce decisions faster, with greater clarity and confidence.
Give HR teams a clear view of reporting relationships so they can make informed workforce decisions with confidence.
Reduce context switching by enabling HR teams to manage promotions, transfers, reporting changes, and terminations from a single place.
Create an experience that remains easy to navigate through search, filters, and interactive hierarchy controls, even as organizations grow.
Rather than adding features to an organizational hierarchy, we focused on the product decisions that would help HR teams understand, plan, and execute workforce changes more effectively.
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The Org Chart should be more than a visualization.
A read-only hierarchy improved visibility but not productivity. We wanted HR teams to understand the organization and take action from the same place.
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Every workforce decision needs context.
Workforce changes affect more than one employee. I wanted HR teams to see the organizational impact before making decisions.
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HR managers shouldn't have to reconstruct the organization.
Switching between employee profiles made it difficult to understand reporting relationships. I wanted the organization to be clear at a glance.
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Workforce planning should include future roles.
Planning isn't just about current employees. I wanted vacant positions to be visible so HR teams could plan ahead with confidence.
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