Assume that you are the production planning manager who would like to implement a chase strategy in production planning activities and that there are five months in the planning period. The number of items processed by each employee is 25 per period. Calculate numbers of employees to hire and fire, respectively.

Period 1 = 1900

Period 2 = 2150

Period 3= 1450

Period 4= 1200

Period 5 = 2000

Starting Employee Count = 90

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