Professional Services
Know which team members are burning out before they quit
Timesheets, project records and HR data connected so utilization patterns surface before they become attrition.
Why this decision matters.
Burnout in a services firm shows up as attrition and slipped deadlines, and both arrive months after the cause. The cause is usually a small group of people carrying sustained overload while the firm-wide utilization average looks healthy.
Averages are the trap. A team at 78 percent utilization can contain three people over 100 percent for two consecutive quarters. Those are the people who leave, and each departure costs recruiting, ramp time, and the client relationships they held.
Seeing the concentration early lets you rebalance staffing while it is still a scheduling decision. Once it becomes a resignation, the same problem costs a multiple of one salary to fix.
Comparing tools for professional services? See how SIGNLD compares with Tableau. For the underlying numbers, read billable utilization tracking for agencies.
How SIGNLD answers it.
Step 01
Connects to your source systems
Read-only access to project and task assignments (Asana), engineering or delivery workload (Jira), and the coordination signals in your team channels (Slack).
Step 02
Builds the graph across those systems
People, projects, tasks, due dates, and reassignments are linked so sustained overload is visible per person and per team rather than averaged into a firm-wide number.
Step 03
Returns a ranked brief
The brief ranks teams and individuals by overload duration, shows which client work is driving it, and recommends the reallocation or scope change that relieves the most pressure.
Reads from.
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What the brief looks like.
The question
Which team members are at risk of burnout or departure in the next 90 days?
What SIGNLD found
3 senior consultants have been over 95% utilized for 11 consecutive weeks with no PTO logged. Two have stopped updating project notes in the last 3 weeks. One submitted a conference registration 6 weeks ago and was not approved, which is visible in email but not in HR records.
Evidence
- 3 senior consultants at 95%+ utilization for 11 weeks with zero PTO
- Project note updates dropped 80% for these 3 consultants in weeks 9-11
- Declined conference registration correlates with resignation in 71% of historical cases in this firm's data
Recommended move
Schedule immediate 1:1s with all 3 consultants this week. Approve the pending conference registration. Reassign 1 active project to reduce utilization below 85%. Estimated replacement cost per senior consultant: $85K-$120K.
67% reduction in unplanned attrition
Illustrative brief. Figures are sample data, not customer results.
Questions.
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