Patent ID: 7225141

Claim:
A method of analyzing resources for a reduction action, the method comprising: identifying a skill group that includes surplus human resources; selecting one or more employees data records corresponding to the identified skill group; analyzing one or more evaluations corresponding to the selected employee data records; choosing a surplus group of employee data records from the selected employee data records based on the analysis, wherein the choosing includes: sorting the selected employee data records by the evaluations, the sorting resulting in a list of sorted employee data records, wherein the list is ordered according to the evaluations; receiving a surplus percentage corresponding to the skill group; and selecting a number of the sorted employee data records by applying the surplus percentage to a low end of the ordered list of sorted employee data records; comparing the chosen surplus employee data records with non-surplus employee data records, wherein both the chosen surplus employee data records and non-surplus employee data records have a common skill group; identifying one or more of the surplus employee data records as non-surplus employee data records based on the comparison; and changing the identified surplus employee data records to non-surplus employee data records based on the identification.