With a PPH goal of 85 and a current trend towards 80 PPH, how many associates need to be VTO'd to meet the goal with 48,784 packages?

To determine how many associates need to be Voluntary Time Off (VTO'd) to meet the PPH goal of 85 with the current trend of 80 PPH, we first need to calculate how many associates are needed to achieve the goal given the total number of packages.

1. Calculate the target processing time: The total number of packages is 48,784, and the goal is to process them at 85 packages per hour (PPH). To find out how many hours it would take to process the entire package count at the goal rate, we use the formula:

[ \text{Total hours needed} = \frac{\text{Total packages}}{\text{Goal PPH}} = \frac{48,784}{85} \approx 573.15 \text{ hours} ]

2. Calculate the current processing time: With the current trend at 80 PPH, we perform a similar calculation to find out how many hours it would take to process the same number of packages:

   [ \text{Current hours needed} = \frac{48,784}{80} = 609.8 \text{ hours} ]

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