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hotdesking
« on: Apr 18th, 2005, 11:08am » |
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Hello all
Is it possible to mathematically work this out.
There are 11 people in my lab-office; we split our time between working in the lab and in the office. The split is anything between 50-50 to 25/75 (or vice-versa). i.e if 50-50 you typically spend 1/2 the time in the lab and rest sitting on a computer. So for 11 people there are 6 computers. ..people walk-in, walk out. Some with a smile if they find a free computer some a bit miffed if it is busy.
I wanna work out - given the above split - what is the minimum number of computers required? A 7th would be good - but how do I justify it?
cheers
sim
PS: Needless to say, the way people walk in-out and split their times is pretty random.
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Re: hotdesking
« Reply #1 on: Apr 18th, 2005, 2:45pm » |
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Without some further information about de distribution of the splits, it's hard to say.
In the worst case everyone will still want to use a computer, because the 25-75% they're somewhere else may not come till later.
On average you could say 50% of the people need a computer, so 5.5 (6) is enough.
You could also argue you want one standarddeviation above mean. But we don't know what the standard deviation is, because we don't have the distribution.
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Re: hotdesking
« Reply #2 on: Jul 15th, 2005, 6:34am » |
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I think you may formulate the problem as a linear programming model and solve for the minimum number of computers required.
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