Show how your team's headcount changed, hires, departures, transfers. Export as PNG, SVG, GIF or MP4.
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Overview
A team's size rarely changes for one reason. Hires add to it, departures take from it, and transfers move people between teams without changing the company's total at all. Reporting a single number, 'we grew from 40 to 52', hides all of that, and a listener has no way to tell whether the growth was mostly hiring or mostly a smaller team absorbing people transferred in from elsewhere.
This page builds a bridge chart specifically for that story: opening headcount, stepping through hires, departures and transfers, to a closing headcount, the same mechanic finance uses for a revenue bridge, built here for people ops, planning meetings and all-hands updates instead.
Reochart animates each step rising or dropping into place, so a headcount review builds in front of the viewer rather than landing all at once. Export as MP4, GIF, PNG or SVG, on your brand on Pro.
How it works
Set the opening headcount as the first bar, then add each step, hires, departures, transfers out, transfers in, as a floating bar with its own value and direction. The closing bar returns to the baseline as the final count.
Enter hires and transfers-in as positive numbers and departures and transfers-out as negatives. Opening plus every step should equal the closing number exactly.
Examples
Real charts made in Reochart, each with its own data and theme. Hover to play the animation.
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Headcount bridge vs the alternatives.
| Chart type | Shows | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|
| Headcount bridge | How a team's size changed, one period | A trend across many periods |
| Waterfall chart | How a revenue number changed | The moving number is people, not dollars |
| Line chart | Total headcount trending over several quarters | Explaining what drove one period's change |
Your data
First row is the opening headcount; each next row is a signed change. Reochart floats the steps and colours gains and losses. Paste or import a CSV.
| Step | Change |
|---|---|
| Opening | 40 |
| Hires | 8 |
| Departures | -3 |
| Transfers in | 2 |
Step by step
Drop your numbers in, or import a CSV.
Choose the chart, theme and animation speed.
Tune colours, labels and add your brand.
Download MP4, GIF, PNG or SVG.
Best practices
Watch out
A bridge where the steps don't add to the closing number, usually from an omitted transfer or a double-counted hire, loses credibility fast.
When that distinction matters to the story, a single combined 'departures' step hides it.
Skipping transfers between teams misrepresents growth or shrinkage at the team level even when the company total is unaffected.
Ignoring seasonal contractor swings makes a temporary spike or dip read as a permanent change.
Why Reochart
FAQ
No. This chart shows how a headcount total changed over a period, not reporting structure. An org chart is a different kind of diagram entirely.
Show transfers out of one team and transfers into another as separate steps; the company-wide total should net to zero across all teams' transfer steps.
Yes, the same structure works at any level, as long as the steps reconcile to that group's own opening and closing counts.
A single bridge covers one period's change. For a trend across quarters, a line chart tracking total headcount usually communicates the arc better.
Yes. Charts animate by default, and you can export the animation as an MP4 or GIF, or grab a static PNG or SVG if you prefer.
Yes. Pro exports a crisp, scalable SVG vector, alongside MP4, GIF and PNG. Every export renders at 1080p.
Yes. The free plan lets you make every chart type except the animated bar chart race, and export an animated MP4 with a small watermark, no card needed. Pro adds the bar chart race, removes the watermark, and adds GIF and SVG, your brand colours and logo, longer videos and CSV import.
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