Your Strategic
Workforce Planning Lab

SWPLab is your sandbox for experimenting, learning, and scaling agile Strategic Workforce Planning. A structured environment that combines proven practices, industry workflows, and advanced analytics, for practitioners at every level.

A Dedicated Space to Experiment, Learn, and Scale

SWPLab provides a structured environment that lets HR leaders and workforce planners safely test workforce scenarios, explore new methodologies, and refine their SWP approach, without impacting live planning systems.

Whether you're just starting your SWP journey or an experienced practitioner looking to push boundaries, SWPLab gives you the tools, templates, and intelligence to experiment with confidence.

Built on the same foundations as OXYGEN, SWPLab bridges the gap between theory and practice, turning insight into action at scale.

  • Safe sandbox environment, test without risk to live plans
  • Pre-built workflows and templates for faster experimentation
  • AI-powered analytics integrated throughout
  • Scalable from pilot to enterprise-wide rollout
  • Suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners alike
SWPLab workforce planning interface
📐
Templates
📊
Analytics
🌍
Global Data
🤝
Collaborative

Three Pillars of Agile Workforce Planning

SWPLab is built around three core principles that make it the ideal environment for both learning and doing.

🔬

Enhancing

A dedicated testing space for refining SWP methodologies. Encourages experimentation and scenario modelling to optimise workforce strategies, without disrupting live operations.

💡

Insightful

Leverages advanced analytics and AI to uncover workforce trends, providing evidence-based recommendations for organisational leaders and HR practitioners at every level.

🤝

Collaborative

Brings together workforce planning experts and HR leaders to co-create solutions focused on real-world applications and best-practice implementation across the enterprise.

Everything You Need to Plan, Test, and Scale

📚

SWP Knowledge Hub

A curated library of Strategic Workforce Planning best practices, frameworks, and methodologies. Grounded in the TSCM body of knowledge and continuously updated with the latest SWP thinking.

📐

Customised Process Workflows

Pre-built, adaptable workflows for every department and planning cycle stage. Start fast with proven templates and customise them to fit your organisation's context and cadence.

⚠️

Workforce Risk Analysis

Identifies skill gaps, retention risks, turnover patterns, and business misalignment risks before they become critical. Surface what matters most, prioritise action with confidence.

🏗️

Organisational Design Simulations

Model different organisational structures and predict their impact on workforce efficiency, cost, and capability. Test before you restructure, at zero operational risk.

🌍

Global Talent Insights

Real-time data on talent trends, labour market dynamics, salary benchmarks, and skill availability across geographies. Plan your talent strategy with an accurate view of the external market.

🔄

Change Management Support

Tools and frameworks for managing workforce transitions, from restructuring and reskilling programmes to technology adoption and cultural change. Guide your people through transformation with clarity.

SWPLab in action
Workforce planning session
HR team collaboration
Team success

Built for Every Stage of the SWP Journey

Whether you're new to Strategic Workforce Planning or a seasoned practitioner, SWPLab meets you where you are.

🌱

SWP Beginners

Start your workforce planning journey with guided templates, learning resources, and a structured pathway from first steps to full capability, without being overwhelmed.

🎯

HR & People Leaders

Bring rigour and evidence to your people strategy. Move from intuition-led decisions to data-driven workforce planning that connects directly to business outcomes.

SWP Practitioners

Push the boundaries of what's possible. Test new methodologies, build custom scenarios, and experiment with advanced analytics in a safe, dedicated environment.

SWPLab Works Seamlessly With Your Full Tool Stack

SWPLab is designed to work in concert with OXYGEN and OXYGEN AI, sharing data, taxonomies, and planning outputs across your entire workforce planning ecosystem.

Test a workforce scenario in SWPLab, validate it with OXYGEN AI's predictive models, then promote it to live execution in OXYGEN. A connected, end-to-end workflow from experimentation to action.

OXYGEN OXYGEN AI Compare All Tools

The TALENT on demand Tool Suite

🔬
SWPLab
Experiment & Learn
YOU ARE HERE
🤖
OXYGEN AI
Predict & Validate
OXYGEN
Execute & Track
"The best SWP practitioners never stop
experimenting. SWPLab gives them a place to do it."

Strategic Workforce Planning is not a project, it's an operating discipline. SWPLab ensures your team always has a safe, structured space to innovate, test, and continuously improve your approach. Eat, sleep, plan, repeat.

Book a SWPLab Demo

Start Experimenting with SWPLab

See how SWPLab can accelerate your Strategic Workforce Planning practice. From first scenario to full-scale deployment, we'll be with you every step of the way.