On 18 June 2012 19:15, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 18 June 2012 18:12, Thomas Morton
<morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
[things that make sense to me]
I'd also like to see quantification. Is the current provable need 0.7
of a person or 1.5 persons? I'm still enough of a mathematician to
think that it's unlikely to be a whole number (and I guess Tom D. is
too).
As a mathematician, I agree with you. Experience, however, tells me
that there is always enough work for between 10% and 20% more people
than you have! If you have enough work for 0.7 FTE, then as soon as
you hire someone you'll find another 0.5 FTE worth of work appears. I
don't think there is any real risk of hiring someone and not being
able to find useful things for them to do.
As a recovering mathematician I say - some people will quibble about
anything. Also where were you in 2010?
Charles