Workforce restructuring solutions
Intentionally design a workforce that can adapt by design, not by necessity.
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What is workforce restructuring?
Most organizations restructure only when pressure hits. Roles are duplicated, costs rise, and decisions must be made fast with incomplete data. It is a necessary moment, but it often exposes how little visibility leaders have into their current structures, skills, and options.
Intentional enterprises work differently. They treat these moments as opportunities to build clarity, not just cut cost. They review their structures, understand how work gets done, and see the impact of change before moving people or removing roles. This turns urgent restructuring into the first step toward continuous transformation capability.
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Aligning location, cost, and capability to maximize efficiency
Common challenges experienced in restructuring
Restructuring often happens under time pressure, where unclear data and fragmented decision-making slow you down. Leaders consistently face:
Disruption to productivity
when teams are reshaped without understanding how work flows today
Limited visibility
into structures, roles, cost and activity across functions
Redundant processes and rising operational cost
without clarity on where to focus effort
Difficulty gaining stakeholder confidence
when evidence is incomplete or conflicting
Complex hierarchies that slow decisions
and hinder initiatives like Global Business Services
How Orgvue helps
Orgvue gives you total clarity during restructuring by unifying financial, workforce and operational data in one modelling platform. It lets you see impact before you decide so you can act quickly without losing control.
- Visualize and model workforce changes, comparing multiple scenarios and seeing the impact on people, cost and structure
- Identify skill at risk, pinpoint critical roles and design structures for models like Global Business Services
- Interrogate your data with AI to surface risks, patterns and answers to complex questions
- Combine internal data with labor market intelligence to inform location strategy and anticipate talent scarcity
- Incorporate external labor market intelligence (LMI) to anticipate talent shortages inform your location strategy and balance labor cost advantages with operational agility.
- Monitor cost impact through fully costed scenarios that support precise, evidence-led decisions
Why Orgvue?
Restructuring demands speed, clarity and decisions you can stand behind. Orgvue helps you:
- Move fast with iterative modelling and real time updates
- Make confident decisions with evidence you can explain to your board
- Align HR, Finance and Operations around one shared version of the truth
- Adjust plans dynamically as conditions shift
- Track progress against your business and workforce goals
Under normal circumstances we would expect a 20-strong team to take 6 months to do this, but with Orgvue a team of 8 did it in 2.
Chief Transformation Officer, major global bank
Some of the most common use cases
Global Business Services
Standardize processes, streamline operations and build an adaptable structure by understanding work, roles and skills in one place.
Location strategy
Balance labor cost, access to talent and operational agility by overlaying labor market intelligence with internal workforce data.
Competitive agility
Reinvent your operating model to unlock talent at scale and connect technology, skills and process to drive agility.
Operating model redesign
See how work is done today and model future structures that align with technology investments and long-term strategy.
features and benefits
How it works
Model your future organization
Bring together data from across the business and use Henshaw Roles AI to build a baseline role architecture . Design future structures with drag and drop modelling and see instant impact on people, positions and cost.
Comparing ‘as is’ cost with ‘to be’ cost by department
Assess talent risk at individual position or role family levels
Assess the impact of proposed changes
Compare internal data with external market insights to reveal skills availability, geographical cost and role feasibility. Use this to refine design, location strategy and talent sourcing.
Populate your new structure with the right talent
Allocate people to roles based on skills, performance, grade or availability. Build talent pools and confirm candidates while tracking the impact on design principles like diversity and opportunity.
Create talent pools and identify multiple qualified candidates for each role
Tracking cost per months period using Orgvue, covering the original plan and actual numbers
Keep track of your progress against targets
Monitor progress throughout the transformation. Track movement across teams and roles and review assumptions against actuals so your plan stays aligned as conditions change.
Customer story
Global athletic apparel company redesigns its structure to increase business performance
150+
Upskilled OD practitioners
6
Global workstreams managed simultaneously in orgvue
170
Countries impacted by the new operating model
Despite the large amount of data that we had to work with across the business, we managed to create the new structure and allocate talent to positions quickly and at scale, while considerably eliminating risks
Head of HR
Business goal
- To transition from a structure organized by industry sport to one organized by customer gender, proven to increase collaboration and knowledge sharing across 50K + employees
- To plan a multi-stage organizational transformation approach that is repeatable and scalable across 70 countries
Solution
- Developed a standardized data architecture, modelling environment and reporting suite
- Redesigned 6 different support functions simultaneously to align to the new model
- Built the foundation to assess talent and skills, and mapped the right people to the right position
- Developed in-house capability by training over 150 HR and business partners, to ensure a decentralized and sustainable transformation programme
Ready to see Orgvue in action?
In a personalized demo session, discover how Orgvue can help you:
- Understand workforce impacts before restructuring
- Compare multiple operating model scenarios
- Find critical skill gaps across the organization
- Align workforce plans to business strategy
- Accelerate AI workforce transformation
Trusted by global enterprises
“Orgvue’s automated role-clustering capability will save a huge amount of time in surfacing opportunities for organizational redesign, workforce planning, and cost reduction. What we’ve seen so far is truly game changing for design work.”
Stacy Anderson, Salesforce
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FAQ: Workforce restructuring
Workforce restructuring is the process of changing organizational structures, roles, reporting lines, and workforce composition to better align with business objectives. Organizations often restructure to improve efficiency, reduce costs, respond to market changes, adopt new technologies, or prepare for future growth.
Common challenges include limited visibility into workforce data, duplicated roles, skills at risk, complex organizational structures, stakeholder alignment, and maintaining productivity during change. Without a clear understanding of workforce impacts, restructuring decisions can introduce unnecessary risk and disruption.
Orgvue brings workforce, operational, and financial data together in a single platform, allowing leaders to model organizational changes, compare scenarios, assess workforce impacts, identify critical skills, and make evidence-based restructuring decisions before implementing change.
By using scenario modeling, organizations can evaluate how proposed changes affect workforce costs, organizational structures, critical roles, skills availability, and business performance. This helps leaders compare options and select the approach that best supports their objectives.
Effective restructuring focuses on understanding how work is performed before making organizational changes. By identifying duplication, inefficiencies, and unnecessary complexity while protecting critical capabilities, organizations can reduce costs while maintaining operational effectiveness.
Orgvue analyzes workforce data, skills information, and organizational structures to highlight critical roles, scarce capabilities, and areas where expertise may be concentrated. This enables leaders to protect essential talent and avoid unintended capability gaps during restructuring.
Organizations can combine internal workforce data with labor market intelligence to evaluate talent availability, labor costs, and location-specific risks. This helps leaders balance efficiency, access to skills, and long-term operational flexibility when redesigning their workforce.
Orgvue enables organizations to monitor progress against workforce, financial, and operational targets after restructuring. Leaders can track workforce movement, cost outcomes, role changes, and organizational performance to ensure transformation goals are achieved and adjusted as conditions evolve.