A workforce audit will establish an inventory of current practices and identify potential improvements in deployment methods, enhancements and workforce productivity.

 

Typically, a workforce audit - based on interviews and extensive data analysis - will include:

 

Identification of the current workforce profile - numbers, FTE, age, education, skills, post, location, full-time:part-time mix for permanent staff;

Absence levels, Wastage rates, Retention Rates;

Evaluation of the use of overtime, agency and temporary labour;

Comparison of deployed employee-hours versus demand;

Productivity comparisons over time, by department, by day-of-week, season, shift, etc.;

Identifying working practices which:

are actual or potential impediments to productive operation (so called "Spanish Practices");

offer perverse incentives to employees.

Benchmarking where appropriate.

 

 

The likely outputs from analysis of the audit data collected are:

 

Identification of any prospective skills gaps

Suggested improvements in deployment practice - reflecting best practice elsewhere in the organisation, or outside;

Evaluation of the benefits from adopting these suggestions;

Identification of opportunities to enable delivery of change;

Identifying opportunities to achieve incremental and/or transformational improvements.