Revcast makes it possible to more easily plan and manage expected headcount & capacity changes within your organization. Given the number of moving pieces, this can be seen as a cumbersome process, hence the included documentation. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Expected Actions: Planned Capacity & Headcount

Planned headcount & capacity changes - in particular hires & terminations - are planned on a budget and managed in Revcast.

As a budget is built, planned capacity changes - including hires, terminations, team moves, and role changes - are able to be modeled. These modeled capacity changes exist only within the context of that one budget until the plan is finalized.

This means that it is possible to build multiple budgets with different capacity plans in Revcast before finalizing and “locking-in” the right one.

When a budget is finalized, planned hires and terminations are locked-in as “Expected Actions”:

• These actions include the original details, including the date, employee role and team, etc
• While managing your plan, these Expected Hires & Terminations become “actual” as you make headcount changes (more on this below)

Finalized Budget: Managing Capacity in Real-Time

Expected Actions are managed in Revcast so as to make it easy to manage your headcount capacity and also keep your plan aligned with what’s actually happening with your business. For a given planned Expected Hire, here are the potential options:

1. Make the hire: hire an employee, add them in Revcast and consume the Expected Hire to make it real
2. Delay or change the details of the hire: plans change, as can the details of an Expected Hire
3. Don’t make the hire // cancel the hire: plans really do change, and often times the best course of action is to not take the one originally planned

The same list above applies to Expected Terminations:

1. Make the Termination // reduce your headcount: terminate an employee by linking them to this Expected Termination
2. Delay the termination by changing the date to the future
3. Don’t make the termination // headcount did not reduce as expected: as plans change, you can adapt

All Expected Actions, including cancelled and linked, are stored in Revcast as the source of record. Further, upcoming and past-due actions are highlighted on the Insights page.