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Headcount planning software that eliminates spreadsheets
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The easiest way to share, track and stick to your headcount plan
Create and share plans across departments, aligning everyone.
View open roles, new hires and costs in one place.
Use permissions and approvals to keep managers from going rogue.
Give your talent acquisition team instant visibility into changes in your hiring plan throughout the year.
Spreadsheets create silos. Rippling aligns every team instantly.
Workforce planning goes awry when too many spreadsheets crop up. Consolidate your teams’ plans into a single interface where you can review who has headcount available and when they can hire to meet staffing needs.
Control which employees see which details, from open roles to current headcount, with role-based permissions. Rippling will automatically update permissions if an employee changes roles.
No more confusion around who has headcount for what. In Rippling, managers can see exactly what they’re approved for and how their hiring aligns to your headcount planning process.
Know how you’re pacing relative to plan at all times
Enforce your plan with (almost) zero effort
Hires who meet your role criteria, like remuneration band or level, will be automatically approved.
If a request deviates from plan, Rippling will route it through an approval chain predetermined by you.
Stay in sync with recruiting
You can optimise recruiting capacity with Workflow Studio. It’s easy to build workflows that keep your team up to date on approved roles and change requests.
As soon as headcount gets approved, Rippling automatically notifies the recruiting team with each new role’s details, so they are able to begin sourcing candidates quickly for future needs.
When a position is filled, Rippling automatically updates your headcount plan, notifies recruiters and sends a reminder to remove the job posting.
Control your headcount costs with compensation bands
Create and manage compensation bands for your current workforce while protecting sensitive data. Rippling maps each employee to the right compensation band automatically based on their role.
Rippling enforces remuneration bands during on boarding and flags out of band adjustments so you can approve special cases, block others as needed and keep headcount costs on plan.
Rippling notifies stakeholders of changes, like when an employee’s compa-ratio drops because of a location change, or if an employee’s remuneration is too high or too low.
Automatically give everyone visibility into the right bands
Rippling automatically gives everyone in your organisation, whether they’re the head of human resources, a recruiter or a hiring manager, visibility into the right compensation bands, without ever oversharing.
Customise workflows to manage pay equity and more
Automated workflows help you stay ahead of the curve. For example, Rippling can help maintain pay equity by sending an alert whenever specific employee compa-ratios drop.
Analyse, automate and orchestrate anything
Most all in one software consists of acquired systems. These modules are disconnected, so your business data is, too. Rippling takes a platform approach, building products on a single source of truth for all business data related to employees. This rich, flexible data source unlocks a powerful set of capabilities.
FAQs
What does it mean to have headcount?
Headcount refers to the total number of employees in an organisation. Open headcount refers to positions that have been approved as part of a hiring plan but not yet filled with actual employees.
What is headcount management and planning?
Headcount planning and management is the process of determining a company’s headcount needs for the following year, allocating specific headcount to different departments, and tracking how the company performs against its plan. It is a cross functional process that involves HR, Finance, Recruiting and hiring managers.
Why is headcount planning important?
Headcount planning ensures that companies have the right talent with the right skills to meet their strategic initiatives and key metrics in the near and long term, while aligning business leaders around a plan to keep costs down. Without headcount planning, larger businesses run the risk of over hiring or hiring in a way that isn’t cost-effective.
How do you create a headcount plan?
Traditionally, businesses have managed headcount plans using spreadsheets. Because many different people are involved in the headcount process and the data related to headcount can be sensitive, this approach traditionally involves multiple spreadsheets. This can lead to challenges such as version control issues, lack of real-time visibility, and manual data entry errors. In Rippling, business leaders can start their headcount plan in a few simple clicks and adjust it collaboratively without ever seeing data they should not have access to.
What tools are available for effective headcount planning?
Effective headcount planning requires tools that move beyond traditional spreadsheets to offer real-time visibility, collaboration and insightful analytics. Rippling unifies data across your HRIS and other systems with tools like:
- Consolidated workforce view: See all your current employees and planned hires in one centralised dashboard, eliminating the need for multiple spreadsheets and providing a clear overview of your current workforce and open roles.
- Automated updates: Rippling streamlines updates to your headcount plan as positions are filled or changes are approved, ensuring real-time accuracy and reducing manual data entry and the risk of outdated information.
- Headcount reports: Generate comprehensive headcount reports with key metrics such as planned vs actual headcount, labour costs and progress towards business goals, enabling data-driven decision-making and accurate forecasting.
- Integration with other HR systems: Seamless integration with your HRIS and talent management systems, providing a unified view of your strategic workforce planning processes and ensuring alignment between hiring and your business strategy.