overwork

State and local agencies are hard pressed to fill the gap, with a recent report surveying over 1,600 state and local emergency management directors indicating they are “overworked, underpaid, understaffed, and underappreciated.”

Yet they are often subject to abuses by recruitment agencies and their employers, including overwork, unpaid labour and poor living conditions.

Another concern with staffing shortages is that remaining employees will be overworked and burned out, and may opt to retire as job satisfaction diminishes, Tardy said.

Dystopian drama “Severance” captured the imagination of overworked Americans when it depicted an employee revolt against an oppressive corporation.

Sophie is also a new mom, overworking to compensate for time lost to maternity leave.