As part of the form focused on the use of digital data in agriculture, it is necessary to determine the number of employees in your company. We are aware that the structure of the workforce in agriculture is often diverse (seasonal workers, part-time workers, external collaboration). This guide will help you to make the most of it as quickly as possible estimate.

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Simplified access by type of employment

Proceed as follows:

1. Seasonal workers: Budget their work based on the time they actually work in a year.
   • For example, an employee works full-time for 2 months a year → count as 1/6 of the full-time position per month.
2. Part-time jobs and agreements (DPP, DPČ):
   • DPP/DPČ and part-time work (typically a mother on maternity leave with the possibility of extra income) count as
     1. 1 person per month if they work at least 2/3 of the normal working hours.
     2. Half a person per month, if they work at least 1/3 of normal working hours, but not 2/3 or more.
3. Externalists: Decide based on their involvement in the business's normal operations:
   • Do not include supplier services, such as technical support.
   • External employees who work in the company regularly, include as employees if they work at least 30 hours per month. A typical example is IT technicians, who are outsourced mainly to smaller agricultural cooperatives. The reduced calculation threshold takes into account the high and narrowly profiled expertise of the given worker, whose replacement with a less professional but more versatile worker would require a higher time allocation for the specialization operated.
4. Full-time jobs are of course counted adequately in full according to the number of employees.

Example

The agricultural enterprise has

• 11 full-time employees
• 2 seasonal workers, each only working approximately 6 months a year
• 1 DPP/DPČ temporary worker who works 80 hours per month
• 1 DPP/DPČ temporary worker who works 10 hours per month
• 1 accountant on maternity leave who still works 120 hours per month
• 1 external IT technician regularly commuting for 40 hours per month from a nearby IT company

So the calculation is 11 + (2×0.5) + 0.5 + 0 + 1 + 1 = 14.5 

After rounding to whole numbers 15 workers.

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A more accurate approach by calculating FTE (Full-Time Equivalent)

Definition of FTE: One FTE is equivalent to one full-time employee working 168 hours per month. To calculate the total number of employees, do the following:

1. Add up the annual hours worked by all employees (including seasonal and external).
2. Divide by the number of working hours in the month.
3. Round according to the rounding rules and fill in the form.

This calculation requires relatively detailed knowledge of statistics for the past year (the entire year is taken into account due to the seasonality of agriculture) and is not absolutely necessary for the purposes of the form.