Orgbix

The person who keeps a company's staff directory and org chart meets the same three questions every quarter: how many managers and how many layers the headcount actually implies, what the company loses while people hunt for a colleague's extension or manager, and how much of the chart the dotted lines have quietly doubled. Orgbix is three free worksheets and one paid directory for that person. The organizational chart planner takes the headcount, the span of control, the people at the top and what redrawing costs an hour, and returns the boxes, the managers, the layers and what redrawing by hand costs a year. The employee directory sheet takes the headcount, the profile fields, how complete they are and how often somebody looks a colleague up, and returns the hours and dollars the lookup costs. The dotted line reporting sheet turns matrix reporting into the number of lines on the chart and the check-in load they create. Nothing here is payroll, a rota or a leave balance: this product knows who works here and who reports to whom, and it knows it today rather than as of the last reorganisation.

Orgbix is three free worksheets and a paid staff directory for the person who keeps a US company's employee directory and org chart. The worksheets plan the chart, cost the lookup and count the dotted lines from that person's own figures; the workspace keeps every colleague with their profile and reporting line, and every chart with the version before it.

Who it is for: The HR or people-operations administrator, office manager or chief of staff at a US company of roughly 20 to 500 people who maintains the staff directory and redraws the org chart after every hire, promotion, reorganisation and departure

Orgbix Pro is $24 per month for the whole team, billed monthly.