Jean:

When I have had to do this my first question is always, what work are we doing? What I found is that RIM departments in different organizations have a wide variety of assigned duties and what you are doing affects how many people within your own department.

For example: Does your department inter-file documents? Then you need to find out #pages/day and how many pages/day an average worker can file. Do you manage electronic records? If you don't have a document or content management application, this requires huge amounts of clean-up support to ensure duplicates are kept to a minimum and documents are appropriately assigned to folders.

You will get lots of other great advice from this listserv. Mine is only one starting point.

Best of luck!
Carol

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>From: "Williams, Jean M" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:28:39
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>Good afternoon to all.
>
>
>
>I am trying to put together a presentation to my
>executive group on
>elevating RM in my company and how we need a
>separate department
>dedicated to RM.  I also need to calculate how many
>employees need to
>make up this new RM department and justification
>for why I decided on
>"x" amount of employees.
>
>
>
>For example:  Is it based on number of employees?
>How many archive
>containers you have?, etc.
>
>
>
>Do any of you use a calculation on how many RM
>employees you need for
>your department and/or company?
>
>
>
>I am just starting out and could really use the
>help!
>
>
>
>Jean Williams
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