workforce structure & cost
One picture of the workforce, for HR and for Finance.
Headcount, FTE, cost and workforce structure come from the same population and definitions. HR and Finance work from the same picture.
What’s really driving your workforce cost?
Look beyond the total. Explore where cost sits, what is driving the change, and where the impact is most material.
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Where is the money?
Start with workforce size and cost side by side.
Two business units hold 63% of headcount, but neither has the highest average cost. Corporate has just 83 people, yet at €18,450 per employee it is the most expensive unit in the company.
The largest business units are not necessarily the most expensive per employee. Seeing headcount and average cost together makes both visible.
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What makes up the cost?
Define the cost, then see where it sits.
Workforce cost includes base pay, benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives and other employment costs. Together they make up the €65.8M total.
The same total can be viewed by financial classification. Cost of Goods Sold carries 46% of the bill, followed by G&A, Sales & Marketing and R&D.
External capacity appears in FTE without appearing in payroll headcount, so it remains visible in the cost picture.
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Is cost moving with the business?
Compare workforce growth with business growth.
Headcount and workforce cost have grown steadily at around 2%, while sales revenue has moved between −5% and +25% over the same period.
The workforce is growing steadily while the business moves much more sharply. Putting all three on the same baseline makes that divergence visible.
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What actually moved the bill?
Explain the movement, not just the total.
Hires added €106.0M in annualised base pay while leavers removed €105.4M. Pay changes and FX account for most of the remaining €8.9M increase.
The underlying workforce movement was much larger than the net change suggests.
FX is separated from workforce movement, so its impact remains visible.
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Is structure contributing?
Look at how management capacity is distributed.
One in six employees is a manager, with a company-wide span of control of 6.3. Across functions, spans range from 2.4 to 12.4.
The extremes are where to investigate. Narrow spans can point to additional management layers, while wide spans can limit the time managers have for each direct report.
Read span together with team size and context. The same ratio can mean something very different in a large operating team than in a small specialist function.
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Go where the impact is material
Look beyond the highest average.
Corporate has the highest average cost per employee, but Components & Supply represents a more material workforce and cost base: 846 people and €10.72M in workforce cost.
So instead of following the highest average, we take the analysis into Components & Supply to see what is driving its pay bill.
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