The Modelling Room is not a machine for requisitions. Week six includes a cut spine even when the brief was “prove we need more people”. A mining services contractor in the Pilbara sent two planners expecting that proof. Overtime was real. The cause was not a missing generalist FTE. It was a licence bottleneck: too few people could sign off a task, so everyone else waited in paid overtime.
They paused four requisitions. Months later they hired one specialist. That is not a morality tale about frugality. It is what happens when you refuse to blend overtime into an average FTE so the dashboard looks tidy.
Not hiring is still a workforce plan. It needs a sentence: which work waits, which customer is told, which fatigue line you will not cross. If those sentences feel impolite, they are doing the job. Polite dashboards are how fatigue becomes normal.
If you want Fileworkbase to rubber-stamp a hiring round, do not book a desk brief. If you want the model to be allowed to say no, start with Capacity Modelling.