HR/workload situation

[Keeva2017]

I do a job where I have 5 colleagues doing the exact same job as me across different parts of the business in different geographical areas.

My area is extremely busy and as such for 12 months they hired someone to split my job in half. All good but they did so after I had time off with work related stress (first time in 15 years of being in this business).

They are now ending that persons post saying there isn’t really a need for it. However our workload is primarily measured by 2 sets of data. That data shows that I have between 30% and 105% more work than all my colleagues.

I am challenging this but is this unreasonable? Someone has to have the most work, but the discrepancy I think is massive?

If anyone has any HR advise to add to aibu il gladly take it.

You know you’re not unreasonable so don’t question yourself. You can’t do a 2/3 person job with 1 person. You say it’s unrealistic and you need another colleague working with you still. You have the stats, stick up for yourself

I was in this exact situation. You can argue your case and show them all the data but if they don’t want to employ a second person they won’t. And your ‘performance’ will become the problem.

@StormingNorman that is exactly it. It will become a performance issue and I guess that’s why I’m doubting myself. This is a massive public sector organisation, the push back is massive and if I hold the line…. Data can be manipulated. I’m part of a union, I wasn’t sure whether to go to them.

make sure you have a watertight job description with expectations on what is manageable. And an achievable KPI. And if your company ask why you are pushing for this, tell them.

And keep all the data for what you are doing vs what everyone else is doing. So that when they come for you for underpersormance you can say "compared to x, y or z?" with data to back it up

I’ve never been in a union but can you lodge a concern with them. No need for them to act on it yet, but it does start to create an audit trail IYSWIM.