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Report Workforce Headcount and Attrition in Power BI

In this lab, you will practice diagnosing aggregation errors and building point-in-time DAX measures in Power BI. When you are finished, you will have an audited, benchmark-reconciled attrition dashboard with department-level turnover metrics.

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Level
Advanced
Last updated
Sep 08, 2026
Duration
45m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Diagnose Non-Additive Headcount Behavior

    Create explicit measures for hires, snapshot headcount sum, and average base salary. Add them to a table visual alongside Date[Quarter] to observe how additive, semi-additive, and non-additive metrics behave across period boundaries.

  2. Challenge

    Calculate Point-in-Time Headcount

    Transition from flawed iterative summation to a Point-in-Time snapshot measure pattern by evaluating active workforce status as of a single date boundary. And fix the invalid summation total across month, quarter, and year contexts.

  3. Challenge

    Calculate Attrition Metrics

    Build an explicit flow measure for Terminations, calculate a dynamic Average Headcount across monthly snapshot periods using an iterator, and combine them into a robust Attrition Rate metric.

  4. Challenge

    Validate Measure Accuracy

    Compare the Headcount measure output to existing HR benchmark and rectify the discrepancy.

  5. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

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