HR and People Ops has been largely unaffected by big data, analytics and ML and there is no reason for this other than entrenched interests. We examine what HR could be with data and ML.  Based a on a lot of work from early mavericks and early adopters such as Google’s People Ops, we talk through what HR departments and companies broadly are doing now, should or could be doing with their data and think of what the future may look like in HR and performance management.