Once Placeholders are added to your account, you can quickly consolidate your unmet demand on Runn's People Planner.
Example 1: Short-term demand
In the example above, 3 FTEs of Product Designer work need to be fulfilled in the week of Dec 29th. Unmet demand dropped to 1.8 FTEs the week after and to 0 after that.
Action to be considered:
First check if any existing resources can do the job with the Find Person feature
If not, consider hiring contractors since the demand is short-term
Example 2: Long-term demand
In the example above, there is consistently an unmet demand for 0.6 FTE to 1 FTE of Business Analyst for 4 weeks and beyond.
Action to be considered:
First check if any existing resources can do the job with the Find Person feature
Consider hiring a full-time employee if the demand is consistent and long-term
Example 3: No unmet demand
In the example above, no placeholders are added under the role "Engagement Manager". This means there is no unmet demand for this role.
How to view unmet demand on the People Planner
By default, the People Planner displays Availability (hours) grouped by Team. To forecast unmet demand, we recommend changing the display mode to Availability (FTE):
Change the grouping to Default Role (or other parameters as needed):
If there are placeholders linked to a specific grouping, you can see the placeholder counts next to the grouping name:
Click on Filter > Select Person Type > Tick Placeholder only
Only Placeholders with assignments in your current timeline view are visible by default. Adjust the timeframe if needed.
How to view the breakdown of unmet demand by placeholders
Expand the grouping > Expand the Placeholder grouping to view the placeholders
Expand the placeholder header to view the associated project
💡 Pro Tip
If you are grouping by a parameter and would like to expand all the groupings at once, you can click this icon to expand all:
