{
  "title": "Workload balance survey",
  "questions": [
    "How often do assigned deadlines compete with each other?",
    "Which activity takes time without adding enough value?",
    "What could be stopped or deferred this month?",
    "Which recurring deadline needs a clearer trade-off?",
    "Who helps decide what to defer when capacity is limited?"
  ],
  "question_notes": [
    "Find the deadlines that collide and the period of overlap; workload totals can hide specific scheduling conflicts.",
    "Identify low-value recurring work and who uses its output before suggesting that it be removed.",
    "Invite a concrete candidate for deferral; do not assume the respondent has authority to cancel a commitment.",
    "Expose the decision between competing deadlines so the team can state which outcome takes priority.",
    "Check whether capacity decisions have an owner; avoid placing the responsibility for incompatible demands on individual employees."
  ],
  "answer_guidance": [
    {
      "question": 1,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Find the deadlines that collide and the period of overlap; workload totals can hide specific scheduling conflicts.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 2,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Identify low-value recurring work and who uses its output before suggesting that it be removed.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 3,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Invite a concrete candidate for deferral; do not assume the respondent has authority to cancel a commitment.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 4,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Expose the decision between competing deadlines so the team can state which outcome takes priority.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 5,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Check whether capacity decisions have an owner; avoid placing the responsibility for incompatible demands on individual employees.",
      "optional": true
    }
  ],
  "respondent_instruction": "If nothing was unclear or difficult, say so. Skip questions about steps you did not experience; use not applicable where appropriate.",
  "note": "Examples to adapt. Not a validated instrument."
}