Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 51 understaffed 45 staffing shortages 45 staffing 43 understaffing 43 fully staffed 42 staffs 40 adequately staffed 40 stretched thin 40 overstaffed 38 staffed 38 desks 38 overworked 37 busy 37 departments 37 busier 36 shuttered 35 holidays 35 overburdened 35 eerily empty 35 overstretched 34 firehouses 34 holiday 34 Thanksgiving 33 inefficiently 33 Labor Day 33 newsrooms 33 closed 33 WANs 33 managers 33 Shopping malls 33 downsized 33 workweeks 33 homeless shelters 33 outsourcers 33 workloads 33 thinned 33 hiring freezes 33 nonprofits 33 backlogs 32 manpower 32 Shuttered 32 overcrowded 32 overbooked 32 cubicles 32 shoestring budgets 32 employees 32 unfilled positions 32 snowplow drivers 32 slowdowns 32 ill equipped 31 reorganizing 31 woefully underfunded 31 agencies 31 cramped 31 staff 31 bottlenecked 31 SROs 31 spreadsheets 31 crowded 31 overtaxed 31 payrolls 31 smaller 31 bloated inventories 31 overloaded 30 underfunded 30 workload 30 weekends 30 brokerages 30 outsourced 30 teleworkers 30 rotas 30 unstaffed 30 retrenching 30 busiest 30 inefficient 30 pink slips 30 dreary 30 clerks 30 workaholics 30 Food pantries 30 BlackBerries 30 disruptions 30 bureaucracies 30 geographically dispersed 30 IT 30 backlogged 30 normally bustling 30 law enforcement 29 Crowding 29 Redundancies 29 undermanned 29 staffers 29 Eid holidays 29 backups 29 resourced 29 undertrained 29 Busiest 29 disorganized 29 virtualized servers 29 procrastinators 29 snowstorms