The time to cover your vacancies is sitting in your officers' admin work
A state department of corrections had about 30 open positions it could not hire into. It piloted RePath, measured the officer hours that came back, and projected it statewide: about 24,000 officer hours a year, about 13 positions of capacity. It did not find new money. It funded a three-year statewide contract out of positions it could not fill. Across our agencies, officers get 8 to 10 hours a week back, which fits what one corrections agency found in a time study of its officers: 72.7% of their time on administrative and system work, 18.7% actually supervising people. A supervisor in that state pilot, one week in: for the first time in a long time, she had all her chronos entered by the end of the day. Read the case study.







