How To Build A Business Case For Hiring New People?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I have identified that we are under-resourced in our team based on the volume of workload and methods of dealing with this href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/high">high volume - lots of task switching to keep multiple projects going at the same time.

When I have previously stated this to senior href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/management">management and HR I have been asked to justify recruitment of new permanent people to the team. I have never found this an easy task.

What href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/aspects">aspects do I href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/need">need to focus on to build a rock-solid business case to hire more people?

manpreet 2 years ago

What aspects do I need to focus on to build a rock-solid business case to hire more people?

You'll want to show how you are under-resourced not just now, but for the foreseeable future.

You want to show the volume of work for the next several years, and compare that to the capacity in your current team.

If you have critical projects coming up, explain how they will be negtively impacted if you don't have enough help.

As much as possible, you'll want to point to specific projects/tasks that have not been completed due to lack of manpower. And you'll want to do the same for upcoming projects which you don't have the capacity to service.

If you are filling the need with temporary workers now, you'll want to highlight that expense and show how it will go away if you increase your permanent headcount.

As @Bmo correctly points out, you can touch on the issues this lack of help is causing with your existing team. Excess juggling can cause them to lose productivity. It can cause morale to plummet. If this gets severe, you may lose critical team members.

While addressing all of these will make you case stronger, companies are still reluctant to add to the permanent headcount, so it could still be a tough sell. If you are juggling now to stay on top of demand, you may need to be prepared to juggle faster for a while (at least that's the situation I'm in at the moment).