Pair people with inspiring projects
Set your team up for success through fair and balanced resource allocation. The result? A fired-up team delivering standout results for clients.
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Stamp out burnout
Prevent overutilization, and keep the talent you can’t afford to lose – with complete resource visibility. Keep workloads balanced and burnout at bay with optimized resource allocation across teams, powered by AI suitability scoring and real-time utilization alerts.
Offer competitive careers
Don’t lose talent to the competition. Stand out by aligning people with career development opportunities. Allocate resources by skills, experience, and individual goals to empower your team to own their own careers.
Strip out selection bias
Gain insights to reduce bias, promote career autonomy, and build a balanced, diverse workforce. AI-driven scheduling aligns talent to project needs, ensuring fair allocation with skills-based suitability scoring.
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Empower teams with autonomy
Happy teams deliver outstanding client experiences. Give them a say in the work they do by letting them self-select unassigned tasks based on their grade, location, and business unit. Allow them to suggest schedule changes and update their skills, giving them greater career control and work-life balance.
Complete skills visibility
Trust accurate skills information synced from your systems or built in Dayshape. Easily upload your staff skill matrices with pre-built templates or integrate via API. Match skills to work for higher-quality engagements and gain better visibility into skill shortages.
Dynamic dashboards
Personalized dashboards deliver tailored insights for every user. Workforce planning dashboards offer advanced visibility into capacity, demand, and skill gaps, enabling strategic hiring, upskilling, outsourcing, and resource allocation.
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Download reportPeople first planning – frequently asked questions
A people first approach to resource planning aims to provide individuals with more autonomy and influence over their daily work as well as longer-term career development. By considering individual motivations and preferences a people first approach can help to attract and retain valuable talent and contribute to more fulfilling careers. In addition to attracting and retaining talent, matching skills to work results in higher quality engagements and provides better visibility of skill shortages.
Resource scheduling software can be used to support people-first planning as it automatically considers skills, traits, and task preferences during the resource scheduling process. Self-serve assignment functionality can also empower your teams by allowing them to select the work they’d like to be involved in, from unassigned work aligned to their grade, location and business unit. Teams can also suggest changes to their schedules, giving them more control of their careers and work-life balance.
Resource management software can help professional services firms to allocate work fairly by automatically calculating a suitability score for each person. This helps to assist resource managers in the resource allocation process and assign work objectively. Suitability scoring works by automatically identifying the best match of available skills, knowledge, and expertise for the task.
A data-driven approach to resource planning also reduces job selection bias and allows work to be distributed more effectively and fairly across the firm. Ensuring the best match of resource allocation based on skills and availability for the task every time can also positively impact retention by supporting diversity and career advancement.
Implemented correctly, an optimal resource plan can increase efficiency, improve profit margins and positively impact client and employee satisfaction. Using resource management software firms can create optimal resource plans and find the best people for their engagements faster. Resource management software also provides firm-wide visibility of staff in one tool, allowing teams to efficiently and flexibly plan across all engagements, improving utilization and capacity planning. Automated project controls and alerts can also be used to speed up the process of resolving clashes or prevent them from happening in the first place.