upstaffing
English edit
Verb edit
upstaffing
- present participle and gerund of upstaff
Noun edit
upstaffing (countable and uncountable, plural upstaffings)
- The process of increasing the workforce for a business or institution.
- 1968, United States Congress House Committee on the District of Columbia, Hearings, page 198:
- We see that there are a great many additional top level people in the District Government, but we have not seen enough of it to make any competent comment on it; however, there is certainly a substantial upstaffing of the top echelon.
- 1971, The Office - Volume 74, page 40:
- By developing a flexible work force plan a company can protect itself from the costs that arise in an upstaffing situation.
- 1990, Project Management Institute, Proceedings of the PMI Annual Seminar/Symposium, page 311:
- In June of 1988, the original upstaffing at this site included three analysts, one secretary and a director.
- 2005, Mandy Johnson, Family Village Tribe: The Story of Flight Centre Limited, →ISBN, page 128:
- The results of this upstaffing had surprised everyone.
- 2007, David E. Hogan, Jonathan L. Burstein, Disaster Medicine, →ISBN, page 5:
- Community planning for rapid upstaffing of impacted facilities by special credentialing of health care providers along with augmentation of supplies may be one partial solution.