HR reporting and analytics for Appliance repair companies: repeat visits, complaints and calls per technician
An appliance repair firm records calls for the brand and the customer, but seldom for its own people. A one-page monthly view shows where help or change is needed.
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The service software or the call register already holds much of what an owner wants to know. How many calls each technician closed, how many needed a second visit, which appliances caused repeats, how many complaints and for whom. Without a monthly look, these facts stay hidden until a brand audit or an angry customer brings one up.
A good report is small and plain. Five or six numbers, the same each month, with a line on what changed and what to do. It is not for ranking people. It is for noticing that one technician gets all the washing machine calls and is tired, that repeats cluster on one fridge model, or that complaints rise when trainees go out too early.
How to set it up
1. Choose five measures
Calls closed, second-visit rate, complaints, average days to close and technicians on leave or absent. Define each in one line so everyone reads it the same way.
2. Pull the data from what you already have
The call register, brand portal, WhatsApp group or paper cards. Do not start a new system, just copy the figures into one sheet each month.
3. Read by technician, product and area
Look for patterns, such as one model that returns often or one area where calls take longer. Patterns point to training or parts problems.
4. Discuss with the field supervisors
Share the sheet, ask for explanations and agree one or two actions. Write the actions beside the numbers.
5. Share a simple version with technicians
Show them the team numbers and their own, without ranking in public. See the performance management work for how it can link to incentives.
Check these first
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These take an afternoon and use your own records.
- Check where your call and repeat visit data is held today and who updates it.
- Count second visits last month for the same call and sort by appliance.
- Ask supervisors which number they would trust most to show trouble.
- See whether any technician has repeat visits much higher than others, and look at the calls given.
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Questions owners ask
No. A shared spreadsheet filled once a week is enough to start. Add tools later only if the manual work becomes a burden, and choose the tool after you know the questions.
They resent unfair measures. Explain what is counted, show them their own figures first, and use the numbers to support them with training and parts, not just to criticise.
Keep names and phone numbers to the people who need them, and do not share them in open groups. Confirm with a qualified professional how data protection rules apply to you.