Understanding Effective Headcount

Basking differentiates between static Headcount or Allocations and Effective Headcount

With the introduction of Mobility Personas, Basking also introduced the concept of Effective Headcount

To understand Effective Headcount, we first need to define the traditional Headcount or Allocations.  

Definition of (static) Headcount or Allocations 

Traditionally, companies allocate a certain amount of employees to a site. This value is usually static or changes very slowly over time following staff fluctuations.

The Headcount in Basking is a property of a site and can be configured in the site configuration:

 

Definition of Effective Headcount

In contrast to the traditional Headcount, the Effective Headcount is not static. It depends on how people use the space and represents the number of employees that regularly visit the office

To be counted as Effective Headcount, an employee needs to visit the office at least four different weeks over a period of three consecutive months. It does not matter how frequent and how short the visits were during those four weeks. 

Using Effective Headcount

By comparing your Effective Headcount and your (static) Headcount, you can understand what is the share of employees that are usually going to the office. Mobility Personas expand this further and give you the split by behaviour.