Any good manager scopes the amount of work to the number of people available. I work at a large tech company. I have a coworker who was on extended medical le

Any good manager scopes the amount of work to the number of people available. I work at a large tech company. I have a coworker who was on extended medical leave for the last year. During that year we shipped a new release of our product. I can absolutely tell you that there are areas of the product where we could have made additional improvements and had higher quality if that coworker was with us - but even without him, we still shipped, because we scheduled our workload knowing he wouldn't be there for that time.