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Compare Actual vs Planned Labor Hours over time

test

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Hi,
I don't know why but I am having difficulty even getting started on this task.

I was asked to chart an employee's planned work effort against the employee's actual work effort over an entire year. As an example, employee A states they have the following planned work effort. There are 40 hours in a week so 160 hours in a month:
Job 1: 5% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 2: 25% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 3: 15% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 4: 40% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 5: 15% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - April 15, 2021
Job 6: 15% of their weekly hours from March 15, 2021 - September 28, 2021

During the period of March 15 - April 15 the employee has plans to work more than 100%
After September 28 the employee has plans to work less than 100% because the job ends.
It is possible another job is assigned to get the employee back to 100% or above
One of the goals is to determine when an employee does have less than 100%.

But, reality is often different than plans. So, actual work effort needs to be compared against the plan. As an example, the employee may have the following actual work effort:
Job 1: 6% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 2: 31% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 3: 15% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 4: 34% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Job 5: 14% of their weekly hours from January 1, 2021 - April 15, 2021
Job 6: 15% of their weekly hours from March 15, 2021 - September 28, 2021

The above needs to be shown in one chart. I have tried stacked column charts, clustered bar charts, and made my own GANTT charts. However, none of them show the data clearly, concisely, or correctly. I envision months on the X-axis, and jobs on the Y-axis with two horizontal data sets; planned & actual. But, when doing this I get a planned bar spanning January thru December, and an actual bar showing year to date work effort. But, it needs to show the percent for the month vs the actual. Hmmm...maybe I need to have a start & stop date for each month vs. the entire year. ...Hmmm Let me go try that but in the meantime if anyone can help I would appreciate it. Can anyone help get me unstuck?

Thank you.
 
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test
You should have some kind of visual image - what do You have in Your mind ...?
After that, You should upload here a sample data.
... or You could get something like this.
Screenshot 2021-03-10 at 18.54.46.png
 
I like your chart and I am going to attempt to duplicate it. Could you also provide the instructions in case I am unsuccessful?

However, what I was envisioning is below. Is my idea possible?

Job #Planned Work PercentStartEndNote
Job #1
5%​
1/1/2021​
12/31/2021​
Job #2
20%​
1/1/2021​
12/31/2021​
Job #3
15%​
1/1/2021​
12/31/2021​
Job #4
30%​
1/1/2021​
6/15/2021​
Job #5
18%​
3/15/2021​
6/30/2021​
Job #6
7/1/2021​
12/31/2021​
12% planned from 7/1/21 - 9/15/21 then 30% from 9/16/21 - 12/31/21

From 1/1/21 until 3/14/21 the employee is only assigned 70% of their time: there is 30% free time available to work

From 3/15/21 - 6/14/21 the employee is assigned 88% of their time

From 6/15/21 - 6/30/21 the employee is assigned 58% of their time

From 7/1/21 - 9/15/21 the employee is assigned 52% of the time

From 9/15/21 - 12/31/21 the employee is assigned 58% of the time

The yellow bar details the duration of the job
The green bar is the actual time worked
The blue bar is the actual time planned to be worked

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test
Are those Your blue and green bars as Your given values?
... where comes the lowest right 18% value?
... Your text let me understand about 30%.
Here my version with those values.
Screenshot 2021-03-12 at 19.14.27.png
What were those Your five 'from ...'-sentences?
 
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