Legion Strategic Insights: Your Edge in Intelligent Workforce Planning

In today’s dynamic and competitive business landscape, making informed, data-driven decisions is no longer just a competitive advantage; it’s a necessity. Relying on intuition, basic reports, or disconnected data sources, especially when managing your workforce, can lead to costly inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

Our latest eGuide, “Legion Strategic Insights: A Complete eGuide to Intelligent Workforce Analytics,” deep-dives into how Legion Strategic Insights helps organizations move beyond operational reporting to leverage proprietary AI techniques for smarter, data-driven decision-making. Here’s a quick overview of what’s inside.

Capture Value, Utilize Data

Workforce management (WFM) tools have evolved significantly, from manual spreadsheets to real-time reporting. At Legion, we’ve taken that evolution even further. Many of our customers begin their journey with Legion’s Report Generator, a powerful feature that delivers real-time, operational reporting. It’s ideal for store managers and administrators who need visibility into critical metrics: Who’s clocked in? Are we staying compliant? How does actual labor compare to the schedule?

In today’s volatile economy with rising wages, inflation, and tariff uncertainty, district and regional leaders need more than real-time visibility—they need a broader lens to manage overall business performance across multiple locations. These leaders are often tasked with identifying key trends, comparing performance across stores, uncovering the root causes of inefficiencies, and guiding strategic improvements. That’s exactly where Legion Strategic Insights delivers the most value, providing a comprehensive analytics layer that enables leaders to create, share, and act on data that drives better workforce outcomes.

Whether you oversee dozens of locations or run operations at scale, Legion Strategic Insights gives you the visibility into your data and intelligence needed to plan better, act faster, and empower every part of your organization.

Many organizations have tried to bridge the workforce planning gap using traditional Business Intelligence (BI) platforms. But those approaches often come with hidden challenges:

• Slow turnaround times: Generating custom dashboards often requires IT resources or analysts with deep knowledge of the BI system and data models.
• Inconsistent data: When multiple teams pull from different sources, it’s easy to run into conflicting metrics or delayed reporting.
• Limited workforce context: General-purpose BI platforms don’t always understand the complexities of workforce data, things like compliance trends, shift claims, labor forecasting, or schedule quality.

Legion Strategic Insights solves these problems by delivering purpose-built dashboards and KPIs grounded in workforce data that are deeply integrated into the Legion platform. That means no more manual stitching of data, no more waiting on IT tickets, and no more guessing.

What sets Legion Strategic Insights apart isn’t just the volume of data or the dashboards themselves—it’s the actionable intelligence that is unlocked across the entire workforce planning lifecycle.

Legion’s intelligently automated platform feeds real-time operational data directly into Legion Strategic Insights, enabling organizations to go beyond static reporting and drive real outcomes.

For example, HR and operations leaders can optimize labor, monitor and analyze shift claim rates, onboarding progress, and communication adoption to gauge employee engagement and retention in real time.

Finance and labor planners can pinpoint exactly where forecasted hours are consistently missed, uncovering cost overruns or scheduling inefficiencies tied to demand variance.

Managers can quantify how Legion’s automation saves them time and redirect that time into coaching and team development. When it comes to compliance, leaders gain immediate visibility into overtime spikes and emerging compliance risks at specific locations, empowering them to proactively intervene and take action before minor issues become costly violations. Every insight is rooted in Legion’s workforce intelligence, delivered in a unified view, and designed to help businesses act quickly and strategically at scale.

A Closer Look at Key Capabilities

Legion Strategic Insights is purpose-built to help enterprise organizations move from reactive workforce management to proactive workforce planning. Delivering data-rich dashboards and nearly 200 pre-built KPIs equips leaders across HR, operations, finance, and IT to confidently make data-backed decisions. Here’s a deeper look at the core capabilities that set Legion Strategic Insights apart:

Measure Labor Optimization

Legion Strategic Insights helps you answer the big questions: Are we overspending on labor? Are we meeting customer demand without wasting hours? By comparing forecasted versus actual labor hours and analyzing budget adherence, you can quickly zero in on inefficiencies. Visualizations make it easy to uncover root causes, whether it’s a misaligned demand forecast or an ad-hoc scheduling issue at a specific site.

Measure Manager Productivity Gains

One of the most powerful aspects of Legion WFM is its ability to automate repetitive tasks like scheduling, time-off approvals, and timecard management. But how much time is automation actually saving your managers? Legion Strategic Insights makes it easy to measure. When managers are freed from administrative tasks, they can focus on leading teams, developing talent, and delivering great customer experiences—and now, you can prove that with data.

Proactive Compliance Management

Legion Strategic Insights gives you ongoing, real-time visibility into potential problem areas in compliance management so you can act before issues escalate. Whether it’s overtime surges, missed breaks, or timecard anomalies, the dashboards flag high-risk trends at the location or regional level. Using historical data, you can spot systemic issues, implement targeted policy changes, or deliver focused training to reduce risk and avoid violations.

Monitor Employee Engagement

Legion Strategic Insights helps you take a data-driven approach to understanding and improving employee engagement. It provides clear visibility into the adoption of key workforce tools and policies so you can identify which locations are excelling and which need more support. From tracking onboarding timelines to measuring communication usage, you get the insights necessary to build a more connected and motivated workforce.

Built for Scale, Built for Action

Businesses today are under increasing pressure to do more with fewer resources. Labor shortages, evolving compliance requirements, rising customer expectations, and increasing tariffs have made intelligent workforce planning not just valuable but essential. In these challenging times, leaders need quick, reliable answers to critical questions: Are managers saving time through automation? Are employees engaged and empowered? Where are we overspending on labor, and what’s causing it? Which locations are at risk of compliance violations? Legion Strategic Insights delivers these answers and more through a single, unified dashboard, making it easier to turn workforce data into strategic action.

Whether you’re just starting to explore workforce analytics or already using Report Generator and looking to expand, this eGuide is your go-to resource.

Download the complete eGuide and utilize the full value of your workforce data.