Every engagement since 2011 started with a question, asked almost word for word by a workforce planning leader, an HR executive or a CEO. This is one of them:
“Our workforce has the wrong shape.”
What the Question Really Asks
The seniority pyramid, the skill mix or the span structure no longer matches how the business earns money.
How OXYGEN Answers
Current shape versus target shape, and the multi-year flow plan (hiring mix, promotion rates, redeployment) that morphs one into the other without a restructuring shock.
Question areaDiversity & Shape
StatusSolved repeatedly
Related Questions
Other client questions in the same area, each one already answered in OXYGEN.
- We have a gender imbalance.A representation target with a credible, arithmetic plan behind it, not an aspiration slide.Read use case →
- Our senior, experienced workforce is leaving too fast.Retirement waves and experience attrition are walking decades of tacit knowledge out the door on a knowable schedule.Read use case →