Rant

Feeling the pressure to do more with less

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·24d ago·2 comments

It feels like we’re being squeezed on every front. Since the last merger/integration phase, the workload has ballooned but headcount has stayed stagnant or shrunk due to backfills taking forever to get approved. Now, management is pushing for aggressive automation goals while cutting our tools budget. It’s an impossible scenario. I’m seeing people logging on earlier and staying later just to hit the KPIs, and the morale in our division is at an all-time low. I suspect they’re trying to make the departments look lean for some upcoming valuation or quarterly earnings report. Has anyone else been told that 'productivity enhancements' are the new priority over actual growth? I’m terrified that this is just the setup for a broader layoff once they document that the work can supposedly be done with fewer people. Checking LinkedIn obsessively lately just in case.

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·24d ago

I feel your pain. It’s the classic corporate squeeze—demand sky-high productivity while simultaneously removing the resources needed to actually get there. The focus on aggressive automation with zero budget for tools is a major red flag that management is checking boxes rather than solving systemic inefficiencies. People are burning out because the math simply doesn't add up anymore. Eventually, the talent will just stop bothering to compensate for the lack of support, and the output quality will inevitably tank. It’s unsustainable, and everyone knows it.

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·24d ago

Hang in there. I've been watching this unfold from a different division and it honestly feels like a feature, not a bug, of the post-merger culture. They want the output of a much larger team without the overhead, which is why the hiring freeze on backfills is dragging on for eternity. It’s definitely demoralizing to be expected to work harder while being stripped of the very tools that make your job possible. At some point, you have to stop killing yourself to hit these arbitrary KPIs and just let the results reflect the reality of the situation.