Automatic Calculation of FTE and Headcount

Work measures are ways of accounting for a worker's time on an assignment. Work measures are of two types: FTE and Headcount.

By default, work measures are calculated automatically for the worker when there's a change in the standard working hours. The change in standard working hours can happen because of a change in position, job, location, department, or legal employer.

In certain cases, you may not want the work measures to be automatically calculated. For example, you override the FTE value of a contingent worker to zero. However, you don't want this manual override to be automatically recalculated when there's a change in the worker's department. To retain the overridden value, you must clear the Calculate FTE and headcount automatically check box on the worker's assignment.

This check box is hidden out-of-the-box for all flows except the Change Working Hours flow. By default, the value of the Auto Calculate Work Measures attribute is Y. When the attribute value is Y or Null, the application automatically calculates work measures. If you change this value to N by clearing the check box, the application doesn't automatically calculate work measures and retains the user entered value.

If the Calculate FTE and headcount automatically check box is selected and you change a triggering attribute, the application will populate the FTE value even if the calculated value is 0.

Note: The value of the attribute is stored in the CALCULATE_WORKMEASURE_FLAG column of the PER_ASSIGN_WORK_MEASURES_F table against the FTE row. For example, the table stores these values when the value of FTE and Headcount is 1 and the Calculate FTE and headcount automatically check box is selected:

Assignment Number	Unit	Value	CALCULATE_WORKMEASURE_FLAG
Assignment 1	FTE	1	Y
Assignment 1	Headcount	1	Null

Conversion of Working Hours to Calculate FTE

If the frequency of standard working hours and assignment working hours are different, they're converted to the lowest denominator frequency of hours in a day. This table shows you how the conversion is done to calculate FTE:

Frequency	How working hours are converted	Assumption
Weekly	Standard working hours * 0.2 Assignment working hours * 0.2	40 working hours
Biweekly	Standard working hours * 0.1 Assignment working hours * 0.1	80 working hours
Semi-monthly	Standard working hours * 0.093023256 Assignment working hours * 0.093023256	88 working hours
Monthly	Standard working hours * 0.046511628 Assignment working hours * 0.046511628	176 working hours
Yearly	Standard working hours * 0.003875969 Assignment working hours * 0.003875969	2080 working hours