short-staffed

If an employer has time to run an ad, that means they're short-staffed and pressed for time.

That number is exhausted extremely quickly, leaving many tech companies (an overwhelming majority of skilled immigrants are tech workers (1)) short-staffed.

Outside of that though, raising prices immediately hurts sales, but worse customer service due to the restaurant being chronically short-staffed takes longer to hurt sales.

Of course the result is sometimes silly, like when an agency is short-staffed but buys Aeron chairs for everyone--because there was money left in the equipment budget, but they were not permitted to shift it to the contractor or staff budget.

I have nothing but respect for Charlie Nutter and the JRuby team but they are extremely short-staffed and spread quite thin with the ambitious agenda they have set.

Somebody in corporate figured out that the company could actually save money by just giving everyone the days off and shutting down all the equipment instead of trying to get things done short-staffed.

The other problem is, we are short-staffed.

I'm often called to set up greenfield DevOps installations, architect and build cloud infrastructures, design platform architectures, build cloud-based, SaaS and mobile products and assist with emergency or short-staffed situations.

Being chronically short-staffed also makes for a worse working environment which leads to employee turnover, which is more costly in the long run, but when you're struggling to make rent this month, the long term costs may not be as apparent.

They probably won't give 2 weeks' notice because they don't care about their references in the retail industry, meaning you're emergency short-staffed and have to repeat the hiring process all over again.

If your company is so short-staffed that you can't afford to have someone out of office on maternity leave (or paternity leave, or even just a normal long vacation that they've saved up PTO for), then what are you going to do when those same people simply quit?

Otherwise, just approve it for me." - "Flag any time-off requests that overlap with payroll deadlines or leave the team short-staffed." Want early access?

"There's a clause in here that gives some more time for certain repairs, because we're short-staffed, so we will take $50 off of your rent".