See your people and what they cost, in one view.
The People directory shows each person in a single table: name, daily cost, type, status, and when the record was last updated. Grade, team, and location sit alongside the name and surface only when they have been recorded, so the row shows what is known without forcing empty fields. A summary header reports the headline composition: "As at May 2026 · Consultants: 23 (avg $640/day) · Contractors: 9 · Total: 32 · New joiners: 2."
You scan the directory and see staff, type, and daily cost in one view. It is the who-and-what-they-cost snapshot for the selected month. When you need to act on bench, you move to the People Cost tab, where the bench summary becomes clickable: one senior has been unassigned for three weeks, another is returning from leave next week. The decision is yours: fill from Open Roles, accept the bench cost because pipeline conversion is strong, or reprioritise. Either way, you have the data to decide before the close.
Bench cost is unassigned available capacity multiplied by resolved daily cost, and it lives in People Cost rather than the directory, drillable to the individual people behind it. It updates as assignments change, as leave is entered, as grades move. The directory is where daily operational visibility begins: who is here and what they cost, before any deeper planning detail.
People Directory · month-based snapshot · grade, team, and location shown when recorded · daily cost · status. Bench summary is drillable in the People Cost tab.