Workforce Planning Not a Common Practice,IPMA-HR Study Finds

The IPMA-HR Benchmarking Committee has been providing human resources benchmark information and data metrics to IPMA-HR members on various topics — including recruitment, compensation, training, HR information technology, operations and demographics — since 1997. Most recently the committee issued a survey to 5,700 IPMA-HR members measuring the extent to which public agencies utilize a workforce plan and have a formalized workforce planning process in place. The results are analyzed here.