Calculating How Many Staff You Need
Use one simple equation to calculate how many staff you need for your operation. There are many real-life examples to help get you started. We use the same equation in each of our projects whether it has 5 or 500 people working shifts
Calculating How Many Staff You Need Course curriculum
Calculating How Many Staff You Need
- Introduction
- Workload
- Holidays
- Absence
- Training
- Rounding up or down
- Examples
- Unpaid Breaks
- Banked Hours
- Preloading the Workload
- Estimating Overtime
- Skills Mix
- Part Time People
- Teams
- Summary
Shift working quietly powers the world around us. From the bread on your table to the aircraft you fly in, from your mobile phone network to the ports, pharmacies, and food producers that keep life moving — shift workers make it all possible.
You can download our booklet to explore the full range of products and services we offer, complete with clear diagrams that illustrate our proven methodology.
Our brochure lifts the lid on how different industries rely on smart, well‑designed shift patterns to stay safe, efficient, and resilient. If you want to understand how better shift operations can transform performance, reduce costs, and improve work–life balance, this is the perfect place to start.
Creating a shift pattern isn’t just a calculation — it’s an art. It means balancing holidays, skills, workload, wellbeing, budgets, fatigue, and future growth to build a sustainable operation where the business performs at its best and shift workers can truly thrive. If you want to see how we design the right people, in the right numbers, in the right place, at the right time — this booklet is the perfect place to begin.