Define: "At Capacity" in Business
Minimal fiscal damage
"Say this every time someone asks how you are doing, even if you are just watching YouTube. Set the baseline low."
When an employee or team is fully utilized and cannot take on additional tasks without compromising quality or wellbeing.
What does "At Capacity" actually mean?
"The only professionally acceptable way to signal to a project manager that assigning one more task will result in an immediate resignation."
"Please notify your manager if you feel you are consistently operating at capacity."
"I am currently at capacity, meaning if you ask me to look at another broken VPN tunnel today, I will throw my laptop out the window."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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