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This first model, staffing quantities, perhaps the simplest, but it's important nonetheless. Where we simply look at our projected staffing requirements and carry it to our projected staffing availabilities. If after that comparison you find that you have more availabilities and requirements you'd be overstaffed. Less availabilities and requirements, understaffed. And of course if they're relatively equal you be fully staffed. Now there's going to be times where, you know, it might be worth being overstaffed but obviously that's going to be costly to an organization. Sometimes you might actually want to be understaffed if you think in the near future you're going to have a major decrease in demand for your services or manufacturing process sees you know, what have you. But oftentimes organizations simply have trouble getting where they want to be an end up being overstaffed or understaffed, not of any choice their own but because of poor planning and so this is where careful and informed planning can really help an organization.