With tight budgets and cost cutting, employee payroll is closely
monitored at many businesses, and any opportunity where an executive can save even a few weeks can seem appealing. This can lead
to what I call “stretching the workforce,” where executives tap current managers or workers to temporarily fill in for coworkers who
are out for whatever reason—vacation, temporary leave, or whatever. The danger in stretching the workforce arises when company
leaders take advantage of situations and current staffers and make
the process of the stretch too long