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Calculating employee productivity

Calculating employee productivity

Calculating employee productivity

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There is a major difference in the way in which productivity and efficiency is calculated here. The standard formula is units produced/time. The disagreement comes in defining what time is. The "bean counters" feel that if an employee is here for 8 hours, then 8 hours should be the divider. Supervisors and others feel that when calculating, time spent in break (2 10 minute breaks) and anytime cleaning up at the end of shift (10 minutes) should be the divider.
So we have 100/8 or 100/7.5 What do you all feel is the correct way.

RE: Calculating employee productivity

Total productive time = (total time) - (breaks etc).  That's the true available time to do something.  Then you multiply that by an efficiency factor to get you into the real world of fuzzy gray factory life.

TygerDawg

RE: Calculating employee productivity

100/7.5 is the method we currently employ. but this is for productivity of maintenance..

RE: Calculating employee productivity

Seems like using the 8.0 figure would lower everybody's "productivity" the same, so does it really matter?

Manufacturing Freeware and Shareware
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RE: Calculating employee productivity

We use a method similar to what tygerdawg indicates.  We look at total time available and then subtract out time spent for meetings, documentation and other similar types of detractors.  This we use to calculate a % utilization or what % of the available time is actually used to produce something.  This gets rolled up on at least an annual basis into the standard time for production.  We can then track how individuals perform relative to the standard as well as the effect of procedural changes.

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