This mentality is what led to so many joining the great resignation!
“Do more with less… now even more … you did it all, so… your capacity has grown… increased metabolism … so… do more. Also we’ll pay you the same, which, yes we know, isn’t close to market.”
I was in a meeting where the Dean said, as they’ve said before, “we’re going to have to do more with less” and I replied “or maybe we just do less with less” and the room got really quiet. I think about that sometimes.