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 "name": "Employees per IT & digital staff member",
 "question": "How many employees per IT & digital staff member?",
 "aliases": [
  "cloud / mobility",
  "application development",
  "artificial intelligence / machine learning",
  "business intelligence",
  "business service management / itsm",
  "collaboration & web apps"
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 "formula_kind": "employees_per_fte",
 "value_units": "employees per staff member",
 "grain": "function",
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 "function": "IT & digital",
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 "coverage_note": null,
 "definition_note": "Counts people whose title places them in the function: an exact count for the org and a floor for the process, since someone in another function may perform part of it.",
 "quartile_method": "p25 and p75 are Tukey hinges: the median of each half of the sorted values, with the median value included in both halves when N is odd. Published only at N >= 8; min, median and max always.",
 "as_of": "2026-09-16",
 "url": "https://sgabenchmarking.com/metrics/digital-tech-employees-per-staff/",
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