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15 Dec 2025
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What is our real workforce availability for Q1 2026?

What is our real workforce availability for Q1 2026 by team and location — taking into account vacation, illness and part-time work?

Marie Weigmann
peopleIX Team

Real workforce data instead of theoretical headcount

This gives companies a reliable basis for operational and strategic capacity planning, recognize Bottlenecks and overcapacities early and can manage resources in a targeted manner. The analysis combines HR and business data and creates transparency for well-founded decisions in workforce planning and resource management.

The analysis helps to:

  • real capacities per Team and location to determine
  • Capacity planning taking into account Vacation, illness and part time to improve
  • capacity bottlenecks early detection
  • well-founded decisions on Resource Management and Workforce Planning to meet
What is our real workforce availability for Q1 2026 by team and location — taking into account vacation, illness and part-time work?

Real Workforce Availability for Q1 2026

Here's your workforce availability outlook for Q1 2026 (January - March), accounting for part-time schedules, vacation, illness, and other absences:

Overall Availability by Location

Overall Availability by Location

Key Insights:

Highest Availability:

  • Lisbon and Cologne lead with 98% availability - minimal expected absences
  • Heidelberg and Munich also performing well at 97.8-97.9%

Areas Requiring Attention:

  • Lyon shows the lowest availability at 94.7% with 281 FTE absence days projected - significantly higher than other locations
  • Konstanz at 95.0% with 153 FTE absence days

Critical Teams with Lower Availability:

  • Infrastructure (Konstanz): 468.7 available FTE vs 497.7 scheduled (94.2%)
  • Quality Assurance (Konstanz): 139.3 available FTE vs 236.3 scheduled (59.0%) - major concern
  • Infrastructure (Lyon): 498.0 available FTE vs 563.9 scheduled (88.3%)
  • Brand Management (Lyon): 343.0 available FTE vs 376.0 scheduled (91.2%)

Well-Staffed Teams:

  • Security teams across Berlin, Heidelberg, Lyon, and Munich maintain strong availability
  • Most IT Support, Customer Success, and Account Management teams show minimal expected absences

Recommendation:

Plan for ~96.5% overall workforce availability in Q1 2026. Lyon's higher absence rates and Konstanz's Quality Assurance team warrant immediate capacity planning and potential contingency staffing arrangements.

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