Microspeak: Headcount, req, and related personnel terms

Raymond Chen March 17, 2015 Mar 17, 2015 03/17/15

For some reason, there are a lot of Microspeak terms related to personnel. (Maybe you folks can tell me how common these terms are outside Microsoft.) We start with a term that is not actually used much outside the personnel world: The Position Control Number, or PCN. The PCN represents a place where an employee could be hired. If somebody is...