Workforce, Labor Standards & Skills Planning worked example

Absenteeism Impact at 99% expected attendance-adjusted uptime: a worked example

Push expected attendance-adjusted uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when absenteeism impact in workforce, labor standards and skills planning is being asked to take on more work and you need to know if there is room.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Units produced per staffed hour: 4 units / cycle (unchanged)
  • Scheduled production hours available: 480 cycles (unchanged)
  • Expected attendance-adjusted uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)
  • Expected first-pass yield: 97 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross absenteeism impact capacity = absenteeism impact output per cycle × available absenteeism impact cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1,844 units for good absenteeism impact capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1,920 units for gross absenteeism impact capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 19.2 units for absenteeism impact downtime loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 57.02 units for absenteeism impact yield loss.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where expected attendance-adjusted uptime sits at 90% and the headline result is 1,676 units, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 1,844 units.
  • It computes good output as the product of output per hour, available hours, attendance-adjusted uptime, and first-pass yield, and breaks out the units lost to downtime and to yield. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Good absenteeism impact capacity: 1,844 units (headline result)
  • Gross absenteeism impact capacity: 1,920 units
  • Absenteeism impact downtime loss: 19.2 units
  • Absenteeism impact yield loss: 57.02 units

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Absenteeism Impact calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.