Workforce scenario planning: location shifts and multi-year costs
A useful workforce scenario makes an operational change concrete and recalculates its headcount, FTE, timing and cost consequences against a known baseline.
Choose a governed baseline
Select an approved budget, target or forecast vintage. Keep the scenario separate so its calculations cannot overwrite the baseline.
Apply position-level levers
As a hypothetical exercise, move 100 planned US roles to Poland with a start month. Keep Group HC constant if no net roles are created or removed; calculate local HC and salary/FTE cost effects by applicable rules.
Include the full time axis
Show current-year, next-year and five-year results, including monthly phasing, FX rates and any one-time transition costs that have approved assumptions.
Treat approval as a separate action
A calculated saving is not an approved restructuring decision. Approved targets and business plans change only through designated review and authorization.