Human Resources Optimization in UAE

Challenge

A client company who was into project sales across the region had approached us with the following concerns:

• They were unsure if they were overstaffed (i.e., was HR cost as % to sales was too high?)
• They were not clear how to downsize if business drops
• Were they paying the right salaries?

Work done and Impact

• We assessed manpower utilization, and determined optimal manpower based on current projects, planned handovers and the order pipeline
• We advised them to restructure their departments and realigned project cost calculations to get better cost estimates
• We built business case scenarios for different situations to estimate the optimal headcount in each situation, thus enabling the company to take the correctly plan manpower
• We benchmarked salaries across relevant competitors to correctly know in which positions where corrections were needed