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staffing

staffing

34 3.1
The way a company hires and assigns employees to do work
  • noun
  • /ˈstæfɪŋ/
: 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.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

  • 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

hiring
vsstaffing
109 1.3

Giving someone a job in a company

focuses on arranging and assigning employees for roles across the organization
manpower
vsstaffing
74 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
personnel
vsstaffing
51 3.0

The department that hires, trains and manages employees

is a process and arrangement rather than a specific department
placement
vsstaffing
  • Specialized
40 3.4

Finding a suitable job for someone often through an agency

is broader and covers arranging assignments and supplying employees in organizations
employment
vsstaffing
5 1.8

The act of hiring someone to work at a company

arranges and assigns employees for work across an organization

How Staffed

overstaffed
1 4.1
staffing
34 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.