the amount of work that a machine, employee, or group of employees can be or is expected to perform.
Origin of workload
First recorded in 1940–45; work + load
Words nearby workload
work-in-progress, work it, work-life balance, work like a beaver, work like a charm, workload, workman, workmanlike, workmanship, workmate, workmen's compensation
Gowrappan said that flexibility is one key component or input of a solid mental health strategy, including trusting employees to manage their own workloads and their personal lives.
Deep Dive: How companies and their employees are facing the future of work|Digiday|September 1, 2020|Digiday
For groups like Bonding Against Adversity and Hmong Innovating Politics, which were already under-resourced before the pandemic, these changes will only add to their immediate workload.
New U.S. Citizens Were One Of The Fastest-Growing Voting Blocs. But Not This Year.|Eileen Guo|August 31, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
In fact, some employees are compounding their own stress by hoarding paid time off, saving it for a time when a vacation can feel like a true break or feeling guilty about using it when workloads have changed and increased.
How managers can recognize burnout remotely|Kristine Gill|August 28, 2020|Fortune
These “purpose-built” databases can handle workloads with much greater efficiency and speed than the monolithic, do-everything machines of the past.
E-learning? There’s a database for that. Real-time data? That, too|Jason Sparapani|August 20, 2020|MIT Technology Review
A survey in June by Peking University of more than 5,000 urban residents, who were employed at the start of the crisis in December, found that 11 percent had lost their jobs and 10 percent had zero or an inadequate workload.