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Why calculate FTE? Are you having trouble making budgeting and workforce planning decisions due to the large number of seasonal and part-time workers you have? If so, you should use the full-time equivalent (FTE) measurement to standardize your workforce on paper. In other words, instead of counting how many full-time, part-time, and seasonal employees you have, you count your total number of hours worked and then determine how many full-time employees it would take to work those hours.
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