2027 Headcount Planning: What’s Really Working?
Planning season is here, and you’re being asked to forecast a year nobody can actually predict.
The spreadsheet wants a number. The business wants flexibility. Finance wants both, smaller. Somewhere in the middle, you’re trying to figure out which roles are real, which backfills are quietly disappearing, and what your current team can realistically deliver.
So rather than pretending anyone has the perfect answer, let’s compare notes.
How is planning actually working inside your company this year? Who really owns the number? Where are you still fighting for roles, and where have you stopped fighting? And what’s the honest conversation you’re having with leadership about what the current headcount can and can’t deliver?
You’ll leave with:
A better sense of how other teams are approaching headcount planning right now, what’s working (and what isn’t), and some language and ideas you can take back into your own conversations.
This is a 60-minute facilitated conversation, not a webinar. No slides and no polished answers required.
Allison Hicks, TPPG Community Manager and the only person who can keep forty People people on topic for an hour, will facilitate.
Camera on or off is completely fine. Just come ready to contribute, ask questions and compare notes in whatever way feels comfortable.
Seats are limited to keep it a real conversation. If your plans change, please release your spot so someone else can join.
About our Partner: Rippling
Rippling puts HR, payroll, IT and spend on one platform, all built around a single record for each employee. A new hire’s payroll, benefits, laptop and app access get set up in one place instead of across five tools and a spreadsheet nobody admits to owning. Their team is joining us for this one, and we’re glad to have them.
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About The People People Group
TPPG is a community of 7,000+ HR, recruiting, talent and People Ops folks across North America. We started as an inside joke about the colour purple and somehow became the place People people go to compare notes, ask the questions they can’t ask at work, and find the others who get it. Events, roundtables, AMAs, a podcast, and a very active Slack. The one rule: give more than you take.
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