Companies are using overtime to solve worker shortages. It can cost them more workers.

Companies that can’t fill their many openings rely on existing workers to stay late, arrive early, and take extra shifts to keep operating. This makes the country’s current labor shortage even more difficult to resolve.

Overtime means bigger paychecks. But it can also create higher stress and burnout. Employers and researchers say overtime demands are contributing to a large wave of quits sweeping across the country as more American workers quit their jobs than at any time in the past two decades. This, in turn, puts even more pressure on the remaining employees.