Business research conducted by the Hackett Group has found out that organizations with the best of HR departments end up spending nearly two-fifths less than their peers. In fact they operate with about thirty percent lower workforce by numbers. This is possible due to effective workforce planning during the corporate strategylevel. Their processes are also all well aligned to overall group needs and technology is increasingly used for automation purposes. This results in average savings of about US $ seventeen million annually for organizations worth around ten billion in yearly revenues.