noun
- the practice of employing more workers than necessary for efficient operation
Usage: business; economics
Examples
- The company’s overmanning led to reduced productivity and higher costs.
- Management decided to address the overmanning issue through voluntary redundancies.
- The factory suffered from chronic overmanning that hurt its competitiveness.
- Union leaders argued that the alleged overmanning was actually proper staffing for safety.
- The new CEO identified overmanning as a key problem to solve.
- Overmanning in the public sector became a major political issue.