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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.

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.
Hires who meet your role criteria, like compensation band or level, will be automatically approved.
If a request deviates from plan, Rippling will route it through an approval chain predetermined by you.

You can optimize 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.

Create and manage compensation bands for your current workforce while protecting sensitive data. Rippling automatically maps each employee to the right compensation band based on their role.
Rippling enforces compensation bands during onboarding 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 compensation is too high or too low.
Rippling automatically gives everyone in your organization—whether they’re the head of human resources, a recruiter, or a hiring manager—visibility into the right compensation bands, without ever oversharing.

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.

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.
Headcount refers to the total number of employees in an organization. Open headcount refers to positions that have been approved as part of a hiring plan but not yet filled with actual employees.
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.
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 overhiring or hiring in a way that isn’t cost-effective.
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.
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: