Director level management conducted a recent meeting in which we were directly told they were not hiring replacement staff for recent resignations and if we didnt get on board with our workload we can quit. We were advised there was no plan to make workload more manageable, I have never been spoken to like this in my life in a professional environment. This is not all departments and there are many departments that have great leadership, mine isnt one of them. I am not allowed to leave my department because the workload is too heavy so they advised us that no one will be allowed to transfer jobs at this time. This worklaod has been going on for years it is not "temporary". There will be a month once a year with some relief (meaning more normal working hours), and it reverts right back to the same.