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COVID-19 WORKFORCE PLANNING AND RETURNING TO THE WORKPLACE MARY CONNAUGHTON, CIPD IRELAND ESTHER O’HALLORAN, EOH BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MOIRA GRASSICK, GRAPHITE HRM & HR-INFORM 07 May 2020 1 WELCOME Mary Connaughton, Chair cipd.ie @cipdireland 2

ROADMAP TO REOPEN BUSINESS Mary Connaughton, CIPD Ireland 3 4

5 CIPD Return to work checklist 6

WORKFORCE PLANNING Esther O’Halloran EOH Business Solutions 7 What have you seen as the predominant business response to Covid-19? 8

Covid: workforce planning Understanding the impact of Covid on your workforce plans, internal and external pressures using evidence to focus on developing new strategies and options for rebuilding your business 9 Where would you recommend people start for any workforce planning? 10

What tools should be using? Where to start  Business strategy and direction  Data analysis of what you have now and identify the gaps  Review structures and hierarchy levels  Scenario planning 11 How can scenario planning help with workforce planning? 12

Scenario planning to develop actions A Risk assessment B Contingency actions • Identify the risks raised by • Determining your each of the scenarios. In a contingency actions will workforce planning context, follow on from an you will want to focus on the examination of the risks. risks related to the This is about looking for robustness of the business alternative approaches to model and resourcing the potentially critical threats strategy. identified. 13 What are key considerations for workforce planning? 14

Planning for your workforce  Resourcing options  Technology and automated processes  Educate your teams on changes  Focus on well-being 15 State of the Art Visualisations Workforce Planning Options 16

17 How do I identify what employees will return to work and when? 18

What communication do I need to put in place – when should I start – should I consider a re-boarding process ? 19 Do I need to consider restructuring and splitting teams/ shifts? 20

What will I do if an employee refuses to return to work? 21 What preparations should I make in case restrictions have to be implemented again? 22

Q & A THANK YOU MARY CONNAUGHTON, CIPD IRELAND ESTHER O’HALLORAN, EOH BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MOIRA GRASSICK, GRAPHITE HRM & HR-INFORM 07 May 2020 23 Thanks for joining us for workforce planning and returning to the workplace Have a nice day cipd.ie @cipdireland 24