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When layoffs increase workload for remaining employees

My company laid off half my department but kept all our work and now they say I should be grateful to still have a job when I complain about the workload.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Gratitude rhetoric obscures the reality that surviving layoffs often means absorbing unsustainable work demands.

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