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HR and Finance professionals use headcount benchmarks to evaluate their workforce and make better people decisions.

CompanySights Headcount Benchmarks
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How HR and Finance teams use CompanySights

We equip leading HR and Finance teams with the data that they need to assess their workforce and make informed decisions.

Benchmarks empower HR teams with data from similar companies to help determine the number of employees required in each function at any stage of the design process.

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Organizational Design

Benchmarking is used to identify functions within a workforce that may be overweight. HR and Finance teams can then focus on these parts of the business for people cost savings.

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Reduction in Force (RIF)

Companies use headcount benchmarks to assess workforce efficiency and set transformation goals, often referencing top-performing benchmark companies to set their targets.

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Workforce Tranformation

HR and Finance teams leverage benchmarking data from larger companies to determine how many people and the mix of skills that their business is likely to need in the future.

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Resource Planning

By evaluating the staffing levels and mix at similar companies with headcount benchmarks, HR and Finance teams can then make well-informed decisions about their own workforce size.

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Rightsizing

Benchmarking helps HR teams to quickly identify where talent management issues exist, with reference to metrics like turnover, new hires as % of employees, and average tenure.

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Talent Management

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Interpreting benchmark data

Benchmarking can mean different things to different people. Let’s look at three examples to understand what headcount benchmarks can tell us about your workforce.
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The overweight Finance function

The higher the revenue per function employee figure the better. In the graph opposite, revenue per finance employee benchmarks have a mid-range of $6.53M to $13.12M, while the Company is $5.75M. This suggests that the Company has an overweight finance function that should be investigated.

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The overweight Finance function

The higher the revenue per function employee figure the better. In the graph below, revenue per finance employee benchmarks have a mid-range of $6.53M to $13.12M, while the Company is $5.75M. This suggests that the Company has an overweight finance function that should be investigated.

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The HR function in the mid-range

Another metric often used is the number of function employees as % of total employees. In the graph opposite, the human resources as % of total employees benchmark mid-range is between 1.39% to 2.99%. The Company is within this range at 1.84%, which suggests a normal sized HR function.

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The HR function in the mid-range

Another metric often used is the number of function employees as % of total employees. In the graph below, the human resources as % of total employees benchmark mid-range is between 1.39% to 2.99%. The Company is within this range at 1.84%, which suggests a normal sized HR function.

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Low employee turnover

The lower the turnover the better, but having none would be a bad thing. In the graph opposite, the turnover rate for the Company is 7.61%, which is below the benchmark 25th percentile of 8.43%. This low turnover figure suggests that the Company has a stable, happy, and productive workforce.

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Low employee turnover

The lower the turnover the better, but having none would be a bad thing. In the graph below, the turnover rate for the Company is 7.61%, which is below the benchmark 25th percentile of 8.43%. This low turnover figure suggests that the Company has a stable, happy, and productive workforce.

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See what our customers say

 It was very helpful… Definitely provided another data point which we wouldn’t have had without it. 

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Director at Big 4

 The benchmarks confirmed my initial suspicions of having too many people in certain functions. In the end the data not only validated our workforce strategy, but also made it more compelling to our stakeholders. 

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Chief Financial Officer at Corporate

 At first we only purchased data to assess one function, then we ended up using CompanySights for all functions. 

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Principal at Consulting Firm

 The impact of CompanySights data cannot be overstated… It wasn't just about confirming my hunch; it was about backing our decisions with evidence, and CompanySights did just that. 

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HR Director at PE Portfolio Company

 The data received a lot of attention, which was great… It supported my hypothesis that the business was overstaffed in some functions.

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