How does effort relate to hours worked and FTE?
FTE and hours worked are tools used to determine effort, but they are not effort certification. Hours and/or FTE should not be reported as effort. FTE is the proportion of any activity against a full time equivalency. It is normally used to determine the breakdown of salary against several funding sources, and to identify part-time employees. When you are reporting your effort, you always report to 100%. Whether you are 1.0 FTE or not, you must account for 100% of your total professional effort. In other words, a person on a .5 FTE is considered a part-time employee. If they are working on only one project, their effort certification should reflect 100% effort towards that project. Hours can be used to calculate effort, but it cannot assume that 40 hours is a work week. If a person commits 50% of their time to a project, and when they certify they determine that they worked 20 hours every week, but actually worked 50 hour weeks, they cannot certify 50% effort. The other pitfall of hour
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