Workforce Planning
Key Elements of Workforce Planning Fundamental to any HR department is planning the structure of the workforce, for today and into the future. It’s important as an organisation to be prepared—and not just reacting to—human resource changes such as retirements and turnover. Putting in place a simple four step strategy, [...]
Team Based Planning
Team Based Planning Optimising the structure and planning the deployment of employees across an organisation is a major responsibility of any human resources department. With management teams increasingly dispersed, and having to work remote from one another, OfficeWork Software has developed a collaboration module to assist teams plan for the [...]
Collaborative Planning with OCN
Collaborative Planning with OrgChart Now In today’s rapidly changing business environment, many organisations are having to plan for future headcount adjustments with haste. The ability to execute a new business strategy days or weeks earlier than previous processes allowed can translate into significant cost savings. It could even be a [...]
Automate Org Charts w/HR Data
Preparing the transition to automated org charts using existing HR data sources Automated org chart software helps get the job done faster, more accurately and in real-time. The time taken to create useful, professional looking org charts has a real cost attached. Manually transferring data into a Visio, Word or [...]
Employee Benefit Awareness
Increasing Employee Awareness of Company Benefits Taking care of employees' mental, physical and financial health has never been so critical in the workplace. Sudden and sweeping changes to workday norms such as remote working, organisational restructures and family schedules have taken hold. Interestingly, even before COVID-19, “flexible working arrangements” [...]
Using Icons in Org Charts
Using Icons in Org Charts Organisational charts offer a visual snapshot of a company’s structure from a high level and have been around since the mid-1800s. Today, sophisticated org chart software allows users to drill down into the various subsections of a chart for a more detailed analysis. In [...]
Retirement and Succession…
Retirement and Succession Planning Succession planning is the process of identifying younger talent to fill vacant positions. Progressive businesses, both big and small, can’t afford to wait until the moment senior members of their staff announce their retirements to start planning replacements. . The benefits of having a formal succession [...]
Span of Control is Important
Why Span of Control is Important What is span of control? Simply put, span of control refers to the number of employees under a manager’s direct control (i.e. a manager with five direct reports has a span of control of five). When examining organisational structure, span of control is [...]
Retaining Key Talent
Retaining High Demand Employees With today’s trend toward remote working, employee retention for high demand jobs is a battleground for HR managers. According to a 2018 survey by Robert Half recruiting it was found 15% of employees were looking for a new job that year. In that environment a [...]
Blindsided by Talent Gaps
At a time when businesses are reevaluating the composition of their workplaces we’re revisiting this client story which first appeared in the March 2016 edition of IHRIM’s Workplace Solutions Review. By Joe Kollinger A unique visualisation of the workforce gave one of our clients advance warning of talent gaps [...]
