Abstract: In each time period during which a facility is open, a difference is automatically checked for being greater than zero, between a minimum number of employees needed to open the facility and a current number of employees. The current number of employees is obtained based at least partially on workloads of activities in the facility, including normal activities whose workloads are determined based on forecasts and labor standards and at least one activity (“no-increment” activity) whose workload is to not be incremented. When the difference is greater than zero in any time period, an excess number of hours of minimum staffing are obtained based at least on the difference, and then allocated among the workloads of the normal activities, to obtain new workloads while keeping the workload of each no-increment activity unchanged. Therefore, workload of an no-increment activity is used in checking but the no-increment activity's workload is not incremented.

Abstract: A method of determining a long-term forecast for a particular week can include identifying a week type of the particular week, identifying a number of prior weeks having the same week type as that of the particular week, retrieving driver data for each of the prior weeks, and averaging the retrieved driver data.