Frontline turnover: a regional question, a local measurement.
Singapore’s retail resignation figures raise a useful workforce planning question. First, get the population, period and comparison right.
Markets18 Sept 2026↗
THE NOTEBOOK
Ideas worth a closer look.
Explore timekeeping, scheduling and forecasting through field notes, visual stories and practical questions.
01 / EXPLORE2 notes
Timekeeping
Make the working day easier to record, review and understand.
Open the collection 02 / EXPLORE2 notesScheduling
Turn demand, availability and skills into a workable day.
Open the collection 03 / EXPLORE4 notesForecasting
Understand the work before deciding how much labour it needs.
Open the collection 04 / EXPLORE2 notesPolicies
Explore how workplace rules shape time, pay, attendance and staffing.
Open the collection 05 / EXPLORE1 noteMarkets
See how the same workforce question changes from one country to the next.
Open the collectionLatest across the notebook
Visit the little lab ↗One slow cycle can rewrite your staffing estimate.
Five packing cycles: 40, 42, 41, 80 and 43 seconds. What you decide about the eighty is what you are really deciding.
Forecasting18 Sept 2026↗
The study measured departments. The system forecasts functions.
Fifteen measured hours can land in the wrong places and still add up to fifteen. Where a time study and a forecasting model quietly disagree.
Forecasting18 Sept 2026↗
Punch rounding: start with the workplace, not the number.
Five minutes, fifteen minutes—or no rounding? Clock location, walking time, punctuality and employee trust all belong in the conversation.
Policies18 Sept 2026↗
The FT/PT conundrum: when the policy creates the overlap.
Same twenty employees. Different contract commitments. Compare 80/20 with 40/60, and see why more part-time is not always the answer.
Policies18 Sept 2026↗
Before configuring timekeeping, define the exception.
A useful implementation starts with the working day you want to improve, not the settings you can change.
Timekeeping14 Sept 2026↗
The problem with planning for an average day.
A balanced daily total can hide a very unbalanced afternoon. Let’s make the gap visible.
Forecasting14 Sept 2026↗
Go-live is a milestone. Adoption is the work.
The questions to keep asking once the project checklist is complete and everyday work begins.
Timekeeping14 Sept 2026↗
Same workforce question. Different industry lens.
Retail, logistics and healthcare can need different answers to the same coverage question.
Forecasting14 Sept 2026↗
A useful workforce metric needs a next step.
Before adding another dashboard tile, decide who can act on it and what they should do.
Scheduling14 Sept 2026↗
More people, or people at the right time?
Explore the difference between adding capacity and moving it to where the work is.
Scheduling14 Sept 2026↗
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