A firm-level ratio on one name

The figure is mostly structural, and it is applied to individuals. What follows for juniors, part-timers, returners and the bench.

Putting a Ratio Against One Person's Name

An individual utilisation figure is mostly made of decisions the individual did not make. Four of them, in order of size.

Chargeable share falls with seniority by design. A single target across grades asks the most expensive people to stop doing their jobs.

A denominator expressed as a flat annual figure turns a three-day contract into a sixty per cent score. The correction is one multiplication.

Unallocated time is the largest honest component of a low figure, and the person on the bench is the one who can do least about it.

A phased return, a reduced contract and a re-entry period all hit the denominator at once. What the figure looks like and what to do with it.

Allocation sets the ceiling on every individual figure. In most firms it is made informally by a handful of people and recorded nowhere.

Once utilisation enters a review, it is a target regardless of what the reporting pack calls it. What to do with it if it is already there.