Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The ...

To highlight why your workload is too much, Devonshire recommends making a list of all the projects you’re working on with the hours that they will take to complete, so you can demonstrate that ...

I manage someone in our practice who is telling me their workload is too much. Though I am not directly in charge of all his activity, I am not quite so sure that the workload isn’t manageable, but he ...

Excessive workload is a problem in teaching ... ‘I love my job,’ I protested (a bit too much),’ but it’s Thursday and I’ve already clocked a 70 hour week.’ I had fallen fully and ...

On a related note, if you’re spending too much time scrolling through Instagram ... to your supervisor if your stressful excessive workload is causing you to drop balls.