Staffing demand forecasting uses your historical occupancy data, booking pace data, and event calendars to predict the headcount required by department, shift, and date at a horizon that gives your department managers enough lead time to schedule. The model is trained on the relationship between occupancy levels and actual labour hours used by department, front desk, housekeeping, food and beverage, maintenance, using your historical payroll and scheduling data alongside occupancy history. A forecast produced 14 or 28 days out gives housekeeping managers time to adjust contracted staff hours and call in additional cleaners for high-occupancy periods without paying premium agency rates. A forecast produced 7 days out catches occupancy changes that occur in the final week before arrival, typically the last major demand movement for leisure hotels. The output is a recommended staffing level by department and shift for each day in the forecast window, displayed alongside the occupancy forecast and the key demand drivers (a sold-out weekend, a conference in-house, or a group that has extended their stay). This replaces the common approach of staffing to last year's occupancy or a manager's intuition about busy periods. To build effectively, we need your historical payroll or scheduling data by department alongside your occupancy history. We assess data availability in discovery.