Given how common this is with layoffs, it feels like backpressure is needed. Specifically: task shedding when they exceed available hours If you're the last o

Given how common this is with layoffs, it feels like backpressure is needed. Specifically: task shedding when they exceed available hours If you're the last one keeping the lights on for a 4 person team, it seems reasonable to let some lower priority things go undone and communicate to your boss that "You don't have time for that." Trying to ratrace to keep up with an unreasonable amount of work is just rewarding a company for overworking you, by avoiding sending it the hard signal of "too much work."