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staffing

staffing

37 3.1
The way a company hires and assigns employees to do work
  • noun
  • /ˈstæfɪŋ/
translation icon : dotación de personal
  • The company is reviewing its staffing needs to ensure they have enough employees for the upcoming project.
  • staffing levels
  • staffing needs
  • staffing decisions

When the reporters ask him directly, he simply says that it is a staffing issue and he makes light of it.

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Examples

  • The inclusion of a technology facilitator/coordinator in the school's staffing plan is ideal.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In the acute care setting, this includes patient care delivery models, staffing patterns, and a supportive, efficient, and client-centered environment.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Now, we have two changes in staffing this year.

  • Next, she shared the information she had seen earlier in her reports about staffing levels.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The resources required, such as staffing and funding, are an obvious consideration in program design.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Changes in location, facility, and staffing impacted what was taking place in many situations.

    Academic text (2015)
  • A method that does not strain staffing resources is likely to be more positively received.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The student population, curriculum, staffing needs, and day-to-day operating issues are described.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Demand forecasting helped nursing units set staffing levels based on predicted admissions rather than the midnight census.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The United Nations admits to rife staffing problems due to excessive politicization of appointments.

    Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

personnel
vsstaffing
167 3.0

The department that hires, trains and manages employees

is a process and arrangement rather than a specific department
hiring
vsstaffing
125 1.3

Giving someone a job in a company

focuses on arranging and assigning employees for roles across the organization
manpower
vsstaffing
81 3.7

The number of people who can do work in a company or area

focuses on arranging, assigning, and hiring employees rather than counting them
employment
vsstaffing
79 1.8

The act of hiring someone to work at a company

arranges and assigns employees for work across an organization
placement
vsstaffing
  • Specialized
57 3.4

Finding a suitable job for someone often through an agency

is broader and covers arranging assignments and supplying employees in organizations

How Staffed

overstaffed
1 4.1
staffing
37 3.1
unstaffed
1 3.6

Surface Forms

staffing singular
staffings plural

Morphology

staffing = staff (transparent) = staff + ing

Derived directly from the verb 'staff' with the gerund/nominalizing suffix '-ing', so the meaning 'the process of providing staff' is predictable.

Etymology

The word staffing comes from staff, a word that first meant a 'stick' and later came to mean the people who support a company. The -ing part turns it into the 'action' of finding or hiring those people, so staffing means arranging or providing employees.