Glossary
Organizational Design & Workforce Planning Glossary
Plain-English definitions of the terms that come up constantly in this field — no signup, no gated PDF. Each one links to where the concept is live in Organization Viewer.
Span of control
How many people directly report to one manager, and why it matters.
Job architecture
The structured framework of job families and levels that everything else — pay, careers, planning — is built on.
Headcount planning vs. workforce planning
They get used interchangeably. They shouldn't be.
Scenario modeling
Testing a reorg, a cost cut, or an M&A integration before you commit to it.
O*NET
The U.S. Department of Labor's free database describing nearly every occupation in the American economy.
ESCO
The EU's free, multilingual classification of occupations and skills — built independently of O*NET.
See the concepts in a working org
The live demo is a 40-person sample company — span of control, layers, department cost and the org chart, all computed in front of you.