divide the workload

Meaning

To share the total amount of work that needs to be done among a group of people so that no single person is overwhelmed. It focuses on fairness, balance, and preventing burnout.

Examples

• We need to divide the workload more evenly so that no one has to work overtime.

  We need to divide the workload more evenly so that no one has to work overtime.

• Hiring a new assistant will help us divide the workload during our busiest season.

  Hiring a new assistant will help us divide the workload during our busiest season.

• The team agreed to divide the workload to ensure the project stays on schedule.

  The team agreed to divide the workload to ensure the project stays on schedule.

• It is crucial for managers to divide the workload fairly among team members.

  It is crucial for managers to divide the workload fairly among team members.

• Let's look at the project timeline and see how we can divide the workload.

  Let's look at the project timeline and see how we can divide the workload.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We need to divide the work load.

  ✓ We need to divide the workload.

  In standard business English, 'workload' is written as a single, compound word, not as two separate words.

• ✗ Let's divide the heavy workload to everyone.

  ✓ Let's divide the heavy workload among everyone.

  Use 'among' or 'between' when distributing a workload across a group of people.

Related Expressions

Practice

• To prevent employee burnout, it is important to ___ fairly.

  💡 distribute the total amount of work

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  divide the workload

• If we ___ evenly, we can easily meet the tight deadline.

  💡 share the amount of work

  Show answer

  divide the workload