Dealing with employees who complain of work overload is a challenge that most HR professionals are facing increasingly often
Employees who are allotted more work than they can handle are likely to demonstrate diminished enthusiasm and productivity, face burnout, or quit the organization altogether. The main point that HR needs to keep in mind is that work should be distributed according to capacity and nature of work, rather than equally. “In my opinion, HR must play a vital role to apprehend work related stress for employees proactively by reviewing the attrition pattern in the organization and educate the team in distribution of talent fairly. Understanding the work-load balance and doing a reconciliation with the available manpower in the team to achieve the target etc. will also help organizations to come up with a proper allocation of work,” says Guruvayurappan PV, AVP, HR, Omega Healthcare Management Services.
He suggests four ways to handle situations where due to the nature of business, late working or week-end working is unavoidable in spite of good work practices:
Source:
Times Ascent 
