My company works with an exercise equipment manufacturer whose prices spiked 40% overnight, turning its workforce plans upside down. The high cost of an outdated workforce planningIf you work at a company where workforce planning is a yearly exercise, you're far from alone. I know this firsthand from coming up through the software industry, where workforce plans often morph as quickly as they're written. This kind of episodic approach to workforce planning has a number of serious drawbacks:The typical cadence of workforce planning is ill-adapted to the pace of modern work. Getting the most out of continuous workforce planningWhen it comes to continuous workforce planning, I've seen so many companies struggle to get over a few critical obstacles.