Calculating How Many staff You Need
by
Alec Jezewski & Dr. Angela Moore
by
Alec Jezewski & Dr. Angela Moore
Available only on Kindle.
The aim of this book is to teach you how to calculate how many staff you need to run your operation. This book will teach you how to calculate the number of staff by skill set for any shift pattern. Calculating the number of staff you need is the most important tool to ensure that your shift pattern runs smoothly. Knowing the number of staff is the driving force behind all your shift pattern decisions.
CDT is a Shift Pattern Consultancy helping organisations around the globe with their staff rosters since 1996. We can help you make efficiency savings by introducing: Annualised Hours, Banked Hours, Holidays Included shift patterns, automatic absence cover arrangements, forecasting cost of operation. We can use operational research to assess your operation and make efficiency savings. Whether you want to reduce costs, increase production, or maximise profits, we can help assess your operation.
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.