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Staffing and Outsourcing

June 25-27, 2014Nashville, TN

2014 Transmission & Distribution BenchmarkingData Review Conference

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Agenda

Introduction

Guidelines

Statistical Report

Anomalies, Issues, Outliers and Corrections

Further Analysis

Guidelines -- Staffing

Staffing FTE: Count all company employees assigned full time to a function, including direct labor, supervision, administrative support and technical support Add in partial counts for part-time employees (seasonal employees or employees who work less than 40 hours per week) and for full-time employees who split their time across different functions

● When calculating FTE value use 2080 hours per year as the denominator. 50% guideline: Include a person in a function if they spend at least 50% of their time on that function. If a person divides their time so that they don't spend 50% on any single function, count them in the “Other” category.

Outsourcing Percentages: Estimate and report the percent of the total direct labor work for each functional area that was performed by contractors rather than company employees. You may use different methods to estimate these outsourcing percentages such as % of total labor hours, % of total miles built, etc.. There are text questions in the survey that ask you to identify the method(s) used.

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Overall Staffing Levels – Combined T&D

Questions SO15, SO20, SO25, Page 6

Company 40 missing distribution staff

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STAFFING

Company 28 – missing field staff.

Questions SO15, Page 10, SO20, pg 17, SO25, pg 23

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OT Hours per Employee

We had some companies answer with total OT hours, and most with per-employee hours. We’re hoping for per-employee figures

Question SO45, Page 30

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Absenteeism

The graph is supposed to show average absenteeism for field work (e.g. linemen, substation electricians, etc.). Company 38 seems a little high. You should not be including vacation or holiday.

Pg57, SO200

Issues found: Staffing

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Page # Q # Primary Issue Who

SO15, SO20, SO25

Missing field staff 28

SO15, SO20, SO25

Missing distribution staff 40

30 SO45 Want hours per employee, not total hours 38

58 SO200 Provide an average per employee and exclude vacation and holiday

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Thank you for your Input and Participation!

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