Sizing the workforce - EURODECISION

While very closely linked to the company’s organizational set-up, sizing the workforce entails finding the optimum workforce characterized by contract types and terms, skills and even vacation timing, to cover a given workload.

It is vital for companies with high labor force costs to learn how to assign the right number of employees to carry out a crucial activity. Yet this assessment can prove complex when there are sharp variations in activity during the day, when the work comprises different tasks that may require traveling or when the labor force is made up of groups with different skills and working times.

On the strength of their human resources scheduling experience in a variety of activity sectors, the Eurodecision use mathematical models to simulate different organizational variants. Through the combination of this know-how and their excellent ability to understand your business, they will be able to guide you in sizing the workforce and recommend the most apt solution for your needs.

A multi-criteria approach – economics, service quality, industrial relations

Simulating different hypotheses

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Your needs, Eurodecision's solutions

Your need

How can I tell whether my workforce is the right size for the volume of work to be covered?

Eurodecision's solution

Eurodecision’s experts will draw on a quantitative approach and their long human resources scheduling experience to help you calculate the right number of employees to cover your workload.

Your need

I need to know how many employees will be required to carry out the activity described in the specifications for a bid I am preparing for a tender.

Eurodecision's solution

Eurodecision provides optimization tools that enable you to make simulations. Our experts can draw on their business expertise to run these simulations if you need them.

Your need

My staffing requirements vary wildly over the course of the day. How can I calculate the number of employees I really need?

Eurodecision's solution

Eurodecision tools factor in this kind of complexity. They will help you calculate the number of employees needed and help you organize your teams.

Success Stories

GROUPE ADP (AEROPORTS DE PARIS)

GROUPE ADP (AEROPORTS DE PARIS)

Aéroports de Paris’s (ADP) Escale (stopover service) division employs between 1,100 and 1,350 people, depending on the season, distributed across the two Paris airports of Orly and Roissy...

RATP

With its 260 bus lines in the Paris metropolitan area, the RATP transit authority employs over 10,000 drivers that 365 days a year drive the 4,000 buses necessary to the operation of the network....

EUROCONTROL

EUROCONTROL is an intergovernmental organisation made up of 38 Member States and the European Community which co-ordinates safety in the European air space...

SNCF

The new French rail price schedules, set up in the last few years, and the constant increase in passenger traffic, have resulted in strong growth in activity in all SNCF distribution channels,...

Some of our customers

Frequently Asked Questions

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I’m dissatisfied by my teams’ productivity. How can I find out whether we are overstaffed?

Using their optimization tools, the Eurodecision experts can make a quantified analysis to put a figure to their response to your question. By identifying the optimum number of employees needed for your activity, they can also give you specific pointers to improving your productivity.

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My activity is surging and I would like to know how many employees will be needed to cope with the extra work volume.

Eurodecision can guide you in your analysis by providing you with specific, quantified answers not only on the ideal workforce to set up but on how to organize it.

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I’m wondering whether it will be possible to carry out the same workload with a smaller workforce by reorganizing my teams.

Eurodecision’s optimization tools double as simulation tools that test alternative arrangements (employment contracts, multiskilling, new types of working times, and so on).