Free framework
Three systems, three headcount numbers, one argument every month.
Position management is where HR, Finance and Recruiting are supposed to meet. When the design is wrong they each keep their own count and reconcile by hand forever. This is how to design it so they do not have to.
What is in it
Written to be used, not filed.
- The structural decisions
- What position management actually has to model before anyone configures it.
- Where the three functions diverge
- The specific points at which HR, Finance and Recruiting stop agreeing.
- What it costs to change later
- Which decisions are cheap to revisit and which are effectively permanent.
Worth your time if
- Your headcount number differs depending on who you ask
- You are designing position management now and want to get it right the first time
- You inherited a design that nobody can explain and everybody works around
Probably not, if
You want a report built. This is about the structure underneath the reports.
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