Understanding the work creates the foundation for workforce planning. Task volumes, time requirements and the future workflow can inform labour hours, staffing requirements and labour costs.
A practical workforce model also accounts for coverage, skills, service expectations, breaks, leave, other shrinkage and when demand occurs.
In physical and store-based work, the same task-level approach would also need to account for layout, equipment, movement, handling and safety.
This connects the method to my established workforce planning skills. A formal capacity-and-cost extension of the method is still in development.