“Steven is doing two jobs. His wife called me. He goes home and doesn't talk anymore. He's going to break, and when he does, everything he knows walks out the door with him.”
Raising this forcefully risks looking like a complaint. The supervisor needs to be seen as someone who handles things.
“There are some workload concerns with Steven. He's been stretched a bit lately.”
A resourcing problem implies the department has been mismanaged. Managers frame issues as already being handled.
“We're working through some capacity considerations in that area.”
Leadership expects problems to arrive with solutions attached. A raw problem reads as a failure of the person presenting it.
“Some operational efficiency reviews recommended.”