Start With Strategy, Not History

What shapes your organization’s workforce planning? If your organization is like 91% of organizations, it’s headcount cost that drives decisions. That was a key finding of a new survey—Leveraging The Executive Leadership Team To Improve Workforce Planning.

After the cost of headcount, the three other factors shaping workforce;plans are the;ability to develop;necessary skills;;senior leadership needs (87%); and adapting;the workforce with changing technology and customer needs (85%).;Near the bottom of the list was flexibility of labor laws and availability of interim staff.

But while 89% of . . .