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The number is the number. Is was independently validated, after all. If you don’t like it, you should've run for rep 3 years ago according to Move78Lucky for you all. However I’m seeking info on facilities that were able to adjust numbers after the changes were posted.
But for real, the new numbers at a lot of places are greatly exaggerated as to what is needed. The cic adjustment for some facilities is bullshit. I think a much better methodology to determine the target numbers would have been to take the number of shifts required to run the facility for the day, double it and that's the new target. For example, my last tower wanted 7 bodies on the day shift, 8 on the night shift, and 2 on the mid. Total of 17 shifts for day x 2 = 34. A target of 34 would have been nice and comfortable. Fully staffed would be fat, 85% would be basically the min to get by with no ot.
For 10 hour shifts on the bws, those count as 1.25 shifts. So at my old up/down, we were open 18 hours a day so 10 hr lines just worked a lot better. Typically we'd have two 10 hr lines and an 8 hr shift on both the day and night. 6 bodies for the day but count it as 7 shifts (accounting for 1.25 x 4 for the 10s) and double it to get a 14 target. Once again, this would have been an ideal target where 14 was fat staffed with spot leave available all the time, 85% would be min staffing for no scheduled ot.