Workforce, Labor Standards & Skills Planning worked example

Retirement Risk Exposure with severity of losing this role's knowledge of 15 score: a worked example

This scenario runs the retirement risk exposure calculation on the strong side: severity of losing this role's knowledge of 15 score, with every other input held at its documented default. Use it when retirement risk exposure in workforce, labor standards and skills planning needs a defensible ranking against other workforce, labor standards and skills planning risks for the next review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Severity of losing this role's knowledge (1-10): 15 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 6)
  • Likelihood of retirement within planning horizon (1-10): 4 score (unchanged)
  • Difficulty detecting the gap before departure (1-10): 3 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Retirement risk exposure risk score = retirement risk exposure severity score × retirement risk exposure occurrence score × retirement risk exposure detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8.15 score for retirement risk exposure risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15 score for retirement risk exposure severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for retirement risk exposure occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3 score for retirement risk exposure detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where severity of losing this role's knowledge sits at 6 score and the headline result is 4.55 score, this scenario comes in 79.12% above the baseline at 8.15 score.
  • Use it during annual workforce planning, before a known retirement window, or when building a succession matrix across multiple skilled roles. Treat this as a target state: the delta against the baseline quantifies what the improvement is worth before you commit to chasing it.

Results at a glance

  • Retirement risk exposure risk score: 8.15 score (headline result)
  • Retirement risk exposure severity score: 15 score
  • Retirement risk exposure occurrence score: 4 score
  • Retirement risk exposure detection score: 3 score

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.