Ease up on the overworked.

• Position: Executive Suite - Brief Article - Polling Data

If you feel overworked, or you're stretching your workforce too thin, you're not alone. In a recent survey by the staffing service OfficeTeam, 70 percent of executives polled said their employees are at least somewhat overworked. That includes 10 percent who said their employees work "significantly too much."

OfficeTeam offers several tips to help managers recognize when their staff is overworked and what to do about it. Among the suggestions:

* Talk to employees and note whether unrealistic deadlines are affecting the quality of their work or job...