The FTE Tree Blog

FTE Tree brings your organization together.

Designed to support organizations of any size, FTE Tree reflects today’s business models where different business units work together as Strategic Partners. Our position control tool bridges the gap between HR, Finance, Line Managers, and other stakeholders to both empower them with the data they need and place accountability for staffing functions where it belongs.

FTE Tree has capabilities that stakeholders need and provides streamlined processes to keep things moving.

Our tool can:

• Build and develop staffing models according to FTE and cost targets.
• Create multiple scenarios for analysis or review e.g. annual staffing budget models.
• Easily assign departmental responsibility for position control.
• Route requests for new, changed, or replacement positions through a completely automated (paperless) approval workflow process - no manual emails required!
• Define approval criteria for varying FTE and dollar totals that can be customized with any combination of approvers in your organization.
• Send automated approval workflow reminders to your approvers.

The dashboard provides a quick and easy at-a-glance overview of details such as your users’ current requests and statuses and recently used departments. You can also add important messages to the dashboard for others to view.

Your HR, Finance, and Accounting partners will appreciate some of the functions created with each of them in mind.

With FTE Tree, you can:

• Download your current staffing plan directly from our position control tool and use it as the basis for your annual staffing budgets. There is no need to remember which positions were approved for hire or change when compared to your previous budget.
• Add tight controls to your hiring process for newly-created or updated positions
• Readily know exactly who is responsible for oversight of every position change in your organization
• Review every change to a position ever made in the tool (each revision is tracked, and the history is readily available for review)
• Set job codes, wage rates, and pay differentials (e.g. taxes, benefits, and shift differentials)
• Have a requisition system where every new and changed position gets a unique requisition number to coordinate with your recruiting team

These and other features make FTE Tree simple to use with a minimal burden for any front-line manager. The best tools an organization can have are aligned with functions, workflows, processes, and goals. Our FTE Tree position control tool offers all of that and more!