The amount of work a person, a team, or a machine has to do — how much is on your plate. It is an uncountable-feeling noun that still takes a/an: a heavy workload, a light workload.

The amount of work工作量，a person, a team, or a machine has to do是一個人、一個團隊或一台機器要做的，how much is on your plate也就是你手上有多少事要處理。It is它是 an uncountable-feeling noun一個感覺上不可數的名詞 that still takes a/an但還是可以加a/an：a heavy workload一個heavy workload（工作量大）、a light workload一個light workload（工作量小）。

The usual partners are heavy, increase, reduce, share, manage, and it is one of those calm office words that people reach for when they want to complain without sounding like they are complaining: instead of "I have too much work," you say "my workload has increased." That makes it safe to say to a boss.

The usual partners are常見的搭配字有 heavy, increase, reduce, share, manageheavy、increase、reduce、share、manage，and而且 it is one of those calm office words它是那種聽起來很平和的辦公室用字 that people reach for when they want to complain without sounding like they are complaining人們想抱怨又不想聽起來像在抱怨時會用的字：instead of不說 'I have too much work,'「我工作太多了」，you say而是說 'my workload has increased.'「我的workload增加了」。That makes it safe to say to a boss這樣對老闆講起來比較安全。

Teachers talk about student workload; hospitals talk about the doctors' workload; computer people also say workload for the amount of processing a server has to handle, which is the same idea moved to machines. The word says nothing about how hard the work is, only how much — a huge workload of easy tasks is still a huge workload.

Teachers talk about student workload老師會說學生的workload；hospitals talk about the doctors' workload醫院會說醫生的workload；computer people also say workload for the amount of processing a server has to handle電腦領域的人也用workload指伺服器要處理的運算量，which is the same idea moved to machines這是同一個概念套用到機器上而已。The word says nothing about how hard the work is這個字不代表工作有多難，only how much只代表有多少 — a huge workload of easy tasks is still a huge workload一堆簡單任務加起來還是算huge workload（工作量大）。