Average Number of Employees = Number of Employees / Number of

months included in report

Lets say you want the Average Number of Employees for your location for 2010
Q1. You select January 2010 through March 2010 as your desired date range for the
report.

Month Number of
Employees
January 2010 137 people
February 2010 137 people
March 2010 138 people

Your Average Number of Employees for these 3 months would be calculated as

follows:

Average Number of Employees = (137 + 137 + 138) / 3 = 137.33

Note that the Average Number of Employees for any individual month is exactly
equal to the Number of Employees for that single month (since monthly data is a
snapshot as of the last day of the month).

Note that there is one adjustment being performed behind the scenes to prevent
doule counting of employees who hold multiple positions. There is a hidden key
figure called No of employees with several positions. Globally, all but a handful
(fewer than 10) employees being counted by this key figure hold exactly 2 positions.
Without some intervention, BW would double count these employees in the
headcount figure. The calculation being performed is:

Number of Employees = Count of employees No of employees with several

positions

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The only situation for which this method does not work properly is when an
employee holds more than two positions (which applies to fewer than 10 employees
globally).

Average FTE

FTE is a summation of Full Time Employees (FTE) in which each employee counts
as a relative proportion of 1 based upon his/her IT0007 (Planned Working Time)
Employment Percentage as of a particular date (e.g. a full-time employee counts
as 1, a part-time employee working at 50% counts as 0.5). Each month of data
loaded into BW represents a snapshot of the last day of that month. Therefore, the
FTE for June 2009 indicates the equivalent number of Full-Time Employees
comprised by the employee workforce as of 30 June 2009. Remember that the BW
HR Headcount Report has specific Employment Status and Employee Group
filters set by default in accordance with the official Nestl headcount definition.
These default filters impact the FTE result.

The actual key figure in the report is Average FTE. This key figure represents an
average of the FTE figure for each month you choose to include in the report
results:

Average FTE = FTE / Number of months included in report

Lets say you want the Average FTE for your location for 2010 Q1. You select
January 2010 through March 2010 as your desired date range for the report.

Month FTE
January 2010 107 FTE
February 2010 107 FTE
March 2010 108 FTE

Your Average FTE for these 3 months would be calculated as follows:

Average FTE = (107 + 107 + 108) / 3 = 107.33

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Note that the Average FTE for any individual month is exactly equal to the FTE for
that single month (since monthly data is a snapshot as of the last day of the month).