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Workforce Strategy Is Capability Planning, Not Headcount Planning
Sit through any board-level discussion of workforce and listen for the unit of measurement. It's almost always headcount.
How many people do we have. How many are we hiring. How many are leaving. How many can we get to a new region by Q3. How many fewer can we run on next year. The CFO does the math in headcount because the budget is in headcount, the comp plans are in headcount, and headcount is the variable that fits cleanly on a spreadsheet.
The problem is that headcount is the wrong unit f
Jul 28 · 6 min