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Headcount is metric that looks useful and a lot of people are steered gravitate towards it. However, it is a field we often steer people away from in favor of FTEs or REs. As with FTEs and REs, the reporting time interval affects how we do headcount. But for headcount, that methodology ends up not being very useful. For example, say your report is looking at headcount by the month. Projector returns a whole value (1) for each resource that is in that month. Imagine Jim works 1 hour in June and Sally works 100 hours in June. Each give you a headcount of 1, for a total of two.

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