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Workforce planning

Meaning in human resources, with examples

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In human resources, workforce planning means: Analysing the staff an organisation has now and the people and skills it will need in the future, then planning how to close the gap.

In Turkish: iş gücü planlaması, insan kaynağı planlaması

How it is used

Done by HR together with finance and business leaders, usually linked to the yearly budget. It covers headcount, skills gaps, hiring plans, training and sometimes restructuring.

Example sentences

  1. Workforce planning for next year shows we'll need ten more data analysts.

  2. Strategic workforce planning helped us see the skills gap two years early.

Common collocations

  • strategic workforce planning
  • workforce plan
  • skills gap
  • workforce planning process
  • headcountThe number of people employed by a company or team, often used when planning budgets and deciding whether new jobs can be created.
  • succession planningIdentifying and preparing employees who could take over important jobs when the people in them leave, retire or are promoted.
  • talent acquisitionThe long-term work of finding and attracting skilled people to an organisation, including planning future hiring needs and building the employer brand.
  • upskillTo teach employees new or better skills, or to learn them yourself, so that you can do your current job better or take on new work.

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