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Re: IT Personnel ratio to customers supported?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kimberly Doss-Cortes)
Thu Mar 24 00:11:12 2016

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When I worked at the University of Arizona (also a research institution),
the help desk had 12 full-timers and ~40 student-employees. The entirety of
UITS was about 300 people, not including student-employees. There were just
over 42,000 students and 12,000 faculty/staff.  That would be almost 187 end
users per full-time technology worker. For support personnel (including
student-employees), that was almost 1077 end users per support person.

Kim Doss
Help Desk Supervisor
(650) 543-3840







From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wendy
Worlund
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: IT Personnel ratio to customers supported?

Thanks all. FYI, UAH is classified as "R2: Doctoral Universities – Higher
research activity." I've been trying to find a published standard, and that
data all seems to be behind a price tag.



Wendy Worlund
Manager of Client Services
UAH - Office of Information Technology
VBH M22
(256) 824-2616
wendy.worlund@uah.edu

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Kimberly Doss-Cortes <kim.doss@menlo.edu>
wrote:
We have about 750 students and 200 staff/faculty members. We have 2
full-time support people, and we currently have 7 student-employees who also
do support. For just support, that's about 1 employee to 105 users. If you
talk about our entire department, we have 9 full-timers and 8
student-employees. So, that's about 55 users to 1 employee. I'm not sure the
entirety of the department is a good measure, though, since most of the
department is tending to systems, data, networking, etc. I find the
support-to-user ratio a better indicator of services being offered to the
campus community. Most standards I have seen don't focus on higher
education, and they generally just give support-to-user ratios. (I believe
the last one I saw was 75 users to 1 support person.)

Kim Doss
Help Desk Supervisor
(650) 543-3840


From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wendy
Worlund
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:46 PM
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Subject: IT Personnel ratio to customers supported?

Hello friends,
I'm looking for a standard on the amount of personnel typically needed for x
amount of customers. So far, I can't find what I need online. (I don't have
an HDI subscription.)


We have approximately 40 full time employees and 14 students in OIT. We have
approximately 9,000 users to support (approximately 1,348 employees and
7,650 students last semester). I'm going to average that to say our ratio is
180 customers to 1 employee.

I'm trying to see where we fall in with most people. If you don't know the
standard, will you approximate what yours is for me?

Thanks in advance,

Wendy Worlund
Manager of Client Services
UAH - Office of Information Technology
VBH M22
(256) 824-2616
wendy.worlund@uah.edu
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