Well, I think the boss may actually have about the right forumla, because I mean:
1. There's likely nothing to discuss, as doing the new job isn't a "choice".
2. The new tasks are being added to avoid staff losses... so you can all either bear down a little harder on the new work load, or people start losing jobs.
Just be glad he's being straight-forward with you. I know a lot of people who would not care enough to have a meeting to tell people face-to-face, "things are changing because money is tight, we need you to take on extra workload".
A lot of people would send out an email. I'd be thankful you're at least being told personally, and that there are no layoffs yet.
I mean, would you rather him just pick 5 people to lose their job so the remaining 25 can go back to the level of workload you had before? And even if that happened, the workload wouldn't go "back down", you would then have 5 people's worth of work to redistribute.
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