Why Don’t We Share Our Workforces?
We’re always resource hungry, yet over resourced at the wrong times.
We’re always resource hungry, yet over resourced at the wrong times.
A shared workforce model lets organisations lend or borrow employees across mutually supportive organisations. It helps monetise underused capacity, scale with agility, access resources without permanent hires, retain recall rights via SLAs, and reduce contractor reliance and costs.
We manage a central pool of talent, contributed by and accessible to vetted partner organisations. You can share underutilised staff or tap into available resources, with built in governance, insurance, and service level recall.
This creates fluid workforce access - like bench strength without the bench cost.
Most organizations track headcount as a flat number let's say 100 people. But in reality, due to holidays, sickness, training, and other non-working time, your actual available capacity is closer to 83 people. That's because the effective work year is only 10 months, not 12.
Now let's look at the work coming in.
Work isn't flat. It fluctuates, and over 80% of it is reactive interruptions, urgent tasks, and fire-fighting. This reactive work consumes all available time and leaves no space for proactive work like improvement, innovation, or strategic planning.
This creates a dangerous imbalance:
- When the workload is below capacity (shown in green), the team can handle it.
- But when demand exceeds capacity (shown in pink), it leads to burnout, bottlenecks, and stagnation.
The graph visualizes this clearly:
- Grey line: Nominal headcount (100 people)
- Blue line: Real working capacity (83 people)
- Orange line: Incoming, variable workload
- Green areas: Work matched to available capacity
- Pink areas: Demand exceeding capacity your team is overloaded and stuck in reactive mode
Allows organisations to scale without bloating.
Create workforce fluidity across departments, partners, and geographies - without fixed headcount dependency.
Blends AI and human work into seamless systems.
As AI automates tasks, Shared Workforce Group helps redeploy human potential to where it adds the most value. The result? Fewer redundancies. More retention. Smarter resourcing.
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