Workforce insight briefing

This is the flagship study of the room. It is for owners, plant managers, and roster clerks who already feel that the week “runs long” and want the feeling drawn so other people can argue with it.

Who it is for

A workplace with a named roster — factory, warehouse, shop floor, or a mixed yard — usually between thirty and four hundred people. If you have no roster at all, we will say so on the first call and point you to a shift-load census first. We do not take briefings for a single desk or for a company that only wants a poster.

What you receive

A bound set of plates: heads against hours, output against those hours, absences without naming the absent, and a short written reading of what the plates refuse to hide. The reading is done in your canteen, office, or whatever room the floor already uses. Two copies of the bound set stay with you. One file copy stays in our Kazbegi Avenue cupboard for seven years unless you ask us to destroy it.

What is included

• A first visit to agree which week will be counted and which doors we may stand in
• Reading of the existing roster, clock cards, or handwritten lists you already keep
• Observation on agreed shifts (days as a rule; nights only if written into the quote)
• Drawing of the plates in the Tbilisi room
• One sitting to read the plates with the people you name
• A fortnight in which you may send factual corrections (a missed bay, a wrong shift label)

What is excluded

Training programmes, payroll changes, and any rewriting of contracts. We will not present a plate that names a person next to an absence bar. We will not count a site we have not been allowed to walk. Software licences are not part of this work.

Who does the work

Nino Gelashvili reads the roster and draws most of the plates. Levan Kalandadze walks the floor and annotates. Tamar Beridze sits the reading and keeps the file copy. A briefing is never handed to a junior to “finish.” If one of the three is ill, the sitting is postponed; it is not filled by a stranger.

How the weeks run

Week one is access, a walk, and the choice of the count-week. Week two and three are observation and drawing. Week four is a draft plate set sent as photographs of the paper, not as a substitute for the bound copy. Week five is the sitting. If the floor runs a shutdown, we wait; we do not invent a week.

Duration and place

Three to five weeks of calendar time, of which six to twelve days are spent on your floor. Work happens at your site and at Level 9, 54 Kazbegi Avenue, Tbilisi 0160, where the plates are inked. We travel to Rustavi, Mtskheta, and Telavi without a separate travel theatre in the quote; farther sites are named in the estimate.

Preparation

Give us a week’s roster, the names of shift leads who may speak, and a quiet table for two hours on the first day. Tell security we are coming. If food is served only in a canteen, say whether we may stand there with a notebook. Do not tidy the floor for us; a tidied floor is a different floor.

Constraints

We need daylight or the lighting the night shift actually uses. We will not photograph faces. We will not accept a count-week that you have already declared a “show week.” If a union representative asks to see the plates before the sitting, we wait for that look; the sitting is not a surprise.

Price

Quoted. Most briefings for a single Tbilisi site fall between 6,000 and 14,000 GEL depending on headcount and whether nights are included. A deposit of one third holds the weeks. See Rates for how the quote is built. Nothing is billed as a monthly seat.

Next step

Write to the room with headcount, shift pattern, and the week you can actually open the door. We reply within two working days. If the diary is full, we say the next free week rather than overlapping two floors.