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Volume 40, Issue 2
1 February 1991
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Work Study
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Research Article| February 01 1991

Staffing for the Information Workload Available to Purchase

G. Russell
G. Russell
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7190
Print ISSN: 0043-8022
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Work Study (1991) 40 (2): 15–19.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002639

Argues that APTdata is the simplest way of measuring the human workload of information handling. Discusses errors of measuring office work, models of information handling, APTdata in use, variances from calculated times, systems analysis, and the features of APTdata in use. Summarises that APTdata, by relating workload to the amount of information handled, makes assessment easy, avoiding the need for operational data gathering.

Keywords:
Information management, Office management, Systems analysis, Work measurement
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