HR Transactions Services

Labour costs typically represent a major component of a business' cost base. Historically, organisations engaging in a transaction or restructure have been unable to understand potential efficiencies/synergies in the labour force due to a lack of data and rigour. The result is that, often, such opportunities are not realised either during or after the transaction.

Our team seeks to bring a rigorous, measurement-based approach to understanding the labour issues associated with a transaction. Using our proprietary benchmarking capability, we can benchmark organisation performance in key workforce metrics, enabling us to determine, and quantify, potential labour efficiencies and synergies.

The metrics used in our approach focus on the key areas of workforce productivity, organisational and functional structure, roles and capability, HR process, interplay of labour, systems and processes, sales force effectiveness and reward structures.

Key areas for consideration:
  • Analysing cost of employee turnover and absence
  • Identifying opportunities for process improvement - in particular, labour, technology and operations
  • Implementing sophisticated variable pay system linked to profitability
  • Measuring workforce capability, engagement and productivity
  • Reviewing executive contracts
  • Reviewing organisational and functional structures to identify potential efficiencies
  • Reviewing synergies outlined in Due Diligence.

How PwC can help you

We can assist you to:
  • Determine and quantify the impact of labour-based synergies on the bottom line
  • Understand the labour landscape and the health of the workforce.
Our services include:
  • Cultural assessment
  • Employee communications
  • HR service delivery
  • Interpreting data from PwC global databases, including workforce, organisation activities and remuneration
  • Management assessment
  • Pre-deal due diligence
  • Post-deal transition
  • Reward transition (including pay, incentives and share schemes)
  • Workforce retention, engagement and performance management
  • Workforce restructuring.