How many staff members is too many?

[Patrik]

depends on what 'small forum' is for you , let's say, less than 5000 members (average of active members should be atleast 100), more than 10 staff members would be "a lot"

 

[Kelly5]

You can only quantify the number of staff based on the type of establishement youre talking about. It you are running a internet cafe for instance, four staff will be enough

 

[Dubai]

How many staff members are too many for a small forum in your opinion? What are the factors that webmasters need to consider? Activity? Forum Statistics? Or,"x" amount of messages or members?

The amount of staff you need should be directly proportional to the nature and quantity of what that is to be done. So, when the job/roles is well spent out, and there is proper division of labor, the staff quantity would be known.

 

[Billy]

Well, the number of staff on a forum will depend entirely on the number of active members. I would say, for every 300 active members, you should at least have one moderator or staff to quickly address issues, and monitor the quality of the discussions in the forum. It is better to go with the activity rather than the absolute total number of members in the forum.

 

[James]

It all depends on how your forum active means if you have less than 20 members online and have fewer posts than 100 a day than 3-4 members enough for you specially choose from different timezone.

 

[Dowenship]

How many staff members are too many for a small forum in your opinion? What are the factors that webmasters need to consider? Activity? Forum Statistics? Or,"x" amount of messages or members?

In my own opinion i don't think staff are many as long the forum keeps growing. Jack of twitter started twitter with his friend in which he was the only staff and owner managing the app... But now he as a lot of staff....

 

[Maphalle]

The number of employees can be determined by ...
1. The size of the business
2. The kind of business and
3. Financial strength of the business.

 

[Giannis]

Obviously it depends of the size of your company.You should try and focus on things like if the job is done if not then maybe you need more in amount or more efficiency staff memebers

 

[btaliat]

In my own opinion, it should be the function of the number of traffic the site can or is generating. If the users are many, then there should be more staff that can monitor or be able to serve the needs of the users.

 

[GIFTMICHAEL]

Small forum website that is operating on a small scale way doesn't need much staff to be on the running. Like 3 staff members i needed to assist the Admin. St least the mod, community admin, technical Admin, and the director of operation.

 

[Grant]

Ask these questions before hiring on people to your forum.

Do I need the help?
Is my forum active enough to hire on new employees?
Could I do the work myself?
Etc.

Basically, do you need to hire anyone? When there is a lot of new members and people posting, it's good to hire people in who can help monitor the forums.

 

[Ralphjoe]

For a small forum that is coming up I think a staff strength of more than five will be too much for such a problem because you will have to be paying this staffs and so it will be a big burden on the administrator or owner of the site

 

[Fizzy_boi]

Actually it depends on the financial and capacity of the business that determines this things you are saying alot just give out slots without checking and later goes down due to the errors.

 

[Ayokex]

in considering the number of staff its advisable you consider the available work to be done so to avoid over staffing, or under staffing because one of this mentioned can lead to business failure either much expenses on staff or lack of staff to perform a task.

As the owner of the forum, he/she should know all the key aspects of running the forum effectively that need some hands to handle. It is important for the forum manager to realize this so as not to over staff or under staff where necessary.

 

[Sotherefore]

It actually depends on a lot of things for example the type of work that is to be performed in a particular forums, sometimes a forums with millions of people and good financial strength require more umbers of people as administrator as far as you are able to pay them all.

 

[Bookwormlux1]

The number of members would determine. There is a forum in my country that has over two million members and there are over 20 staff members.

 

[eLdavis]

Well it depends on the owner of the business. If you the budget you have set for your workers is nolonger enough to pay and care for them, its a clear sign you have too much workers. In most cases some organization might have different offices that actually plays the same role but in different ways. The best thing to do is cut off some offices

 

[Kunkun]

Well it depends actually, one the scale of the business in question and the financial capability to carry them along and not run into debt, also there should not be a form of redundancy

 

[Justin]

Over staffing is a grate problem everywhere in an online business or an offline business. If your staff is not fully occupied with work for 8 hours, I guess you are overstaffed.

 

[cowantussie]

Over and under
Over-staffing situations tend to be fairly obvious. When people regularly have to hunt for new work, stand around the water cooler too much, come in late, leave early or take long lunches, you clearly have too many people on the payroll.

It will be fun for a time, but people will soon start to feel unfulfilled. You have two choices: Find more work to occupy them (rev up your powers of persuasion, creativity and innovation to create new opportunities), or release workers until you have enough business to match your workforce (decide which staff members contribute least, and let them go). Consider not just talent and skill sets, but actual bottom line productivity. These two decisions seem pretty cut and dry.

The biggest problem you'll face is having too few staff to get it all done.

At one time or another, most of us have had to stretch ourselves thin to make up for downsized colleagues. Over the short term, we usually do well at it, causing the managers who did the downsizing to congratulate themselves for making the right decision. But they miss the fact that stretching implies deformation. At some point, anything stretched either gets warped out of shape, or — like a rubber band — snaps back to its original dimensions.