Just trying to make my thinking on FTEs more clear: Does this follow?
A. 1 office person working at an office desk for an 8-hour workday, 5 days/week = 1.0 FTE
B. 1 office person working at an office desk for a 4-hour workday, 5 days/week = 0.5 FTE (and adds 0.5 to peak)
C. 1 office person working at an office desk for a 10-hour workday, 4 days/week = 1.0 FTE
D. 1 janitorial service staff cleaning an office for a 4-hour workday, 5 days/week = 0.5 Average Transients (and adds 1.0 to peak)
E. 1 factory worker working an 8-hour shift 5 days/week = 1.0 FTE
F. 1 factory worker working an 8-hour shift 7 days/week = 1.4 FTE (assuming all others are calculated based on 40 hour weeks, and adds 1.4 to peak)
G. 1 truck driver spends about 1 hour/day, 5 days/week loading a truck and leaving for day = 0.1 FTE (a truck driver does not represent a transient load – no car)
H. 1 vendor (client or sales person) arrives about 3 times/week and stays about 4 hours = 0.3 Average Transients (and adds 1.0 to peak)
I. 4 vendors (a group of visitors) arrive about 3 times/week and stay about 4 hours = 1.2 Average Transients (and adds 4.0 to peak)
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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March 21, 2013 - 1:15 pm
Louise, the only place I start to lose you is with transients, which are not calculated the same way as FTEs. The definition of transients can be more dependent on which credit you talking about. And a transient, by definition, isn't sticking around, so it doesn't make sense to enumerate tham as fractions against an 8-hour shift. Just whole numbers, in my opinion.