Workload Creep = Culture Issues

One of the biggest challenges facing U.S. employers today isn’t hiring… it’s workload creep.

As teams stay lean and business demands rise, many employees are quietly taking on:
📌 Additional responsibilities
📌 Expanded roles
📌 Extra hours
📌 New projects—without new compensation
📌 Cross-functional work they were never trained for

The result?
➡️ Burnout
➡️ Turnover
➡️ Low morale
➡️ Pay inequity
➡️ HR and compliance risk
➡️ Leaders feeling overwhelmed

This is becoming one of the most common issues we’re helping companies navigate in 2025.

Workload creep is a culture issue, a compensation issue, and a retention issue.

Here’s what organizations should be doing right now:
✔️ Reassessing job descriptions vs actual duties
✔️ Auditing workloads quarterly
✔️ Reviewing compensation for fairness & accuracy
✔️ Setting realistic expectations with managers
✔️ Clarifying priorities and deprioritizing low-value work
✔️ Improving communication around capacity and burnout
✔️ Offering development—not just more responsibility

At Summit Path HR Consulting, we help companies get ahead of workload creep before it turns into turnover and disengagement.

If your team is stretched thin or responsibilities have grown faster than pay—let’s talk.
Healthy teams build healthy companies.