langner. HR Math

The work leaves no record

No ticket, no project code, no line on a review. Every HR week contains hours that never reach a system.

Put your own numbers in. Get a figure you can defend, with the arithmetic attached.

Count your week See the arithmetic

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Interruptions

01

The quick question that is never quick, and the coaching that never gets calendared.

Subtotal5.4 h/wk

Weight

02

Cases and conversations that cost more than the calendar shows. Prep, delivery, and the part you carry afterwards.

Subtotal6.9 h/wk

Frame

03

Two inputs that turn hours into something a finance partner will read.

12.3hours a week

2.9
2.5
5.0
1.9
590Hours a year
14.8Full working weeks
1:300You to headcount
2.0hPer person, per year
Value of those hours
at your own rate$33,802

What if the intake improved

Model a front door for questions. Drag to route a share of them somewhere else and see what comes back.

0%
No change modelled yet.0 h

Show your work

Bring the arithmetic, not just the total. It is much harder to wave away.

  • 25 questions × 7 min2.9 h
  • 6 coaching × 25 min2.5 h
  • 4 open cases5.0 h
  • 3 hard talks/mo × 2.5 h1.9 h
  • Every week12.3 h
Say it like this

A number on its own changes nothing.

Three ways this actually moves something. Pick one. Do not open with all three.

01

Ask for the headcount with the arithmetic attached

"We absorb 590 hours a year that nobody planned for. That is most of a role." A request lands differently when the gap is already measured.

02

Fix the intake, not the person

If interruptions are your largest line, the problem is not time management. There is no front door. Build one, then run this again in a quarter.

03

Put it in your own review

Most HR people get reviewed on the work that was visible. Bring the other column. Nobody else is going to write it down for you.