With the deployment of IOP task and task tracking you can bet the farm that this tool was 1000% created to track and mange headcount. THIS IS A FACT and every time we have a nation wide conf call and they say it's not being used for that they are LIARS! Haaans ran Ericsson and Ericsson has a dispatch tool called Work Force Management and that tool looks and feels just like IOP task tool! Ericsson work force management is used to track production and to level up the work load VS headcount and each year Ericsson adjust it's work staffing levels based on the data Work Force Management produced.
So layoffs are coming and you can thank IOP task tool for it!
Here is how to protect yourself. Create at least 10 task a day, even to get a cup of coffee! Make yourself look busy in the tool, even if you have to drive to a site and just site there and do nothing. Create busy work in IOP or else you will be laid off!