Title: 3 Reasons You’ll Never Be Fully Staffed | The Tim Sackett Project
Headings: 3 Reasons You’ll Never Be Fully Staffed
3 Reasons You’ll Never Be Fully Staffed
Content: What you don’t know is why this type of forecasting is so broken when it comes to staffing. These models are predictive of having a fully functioning staff to meet the perfect number needed. Fully trained, fully productive, etc. If the model says you need 25 Nurses to run a floor, in reality you probably need many more than that. Finance doesn’t like to hear this because they don’t want to pay 28 Nurses when the budget is for 25 Nurses. You’re in HR, you know the reality – staffing 25 Nursing openings (or servers, or assembly workers, or software developers, etc.) takes more than 25 Nurses. You have Nurses who are great and experienced and you have ones who are as green as grass -you have ones retiring in a few months, some taking leave, some leaving for other jobs, etc. Because of this you have a budget for overtime – why? – because you need coverage.