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I'm not sure how that worked out well for you, unless you also negotiated a 20% reduced workload.

Currently, I have way more work than I can possibly do in 40 hours, meaning I'm already dropping things on the floor if I only work 40. Working even fewer hours would exacerbate this problem.

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Sounds like a management problem, it seems to me that your company needs to hire someone to help you.

Might be management problem, as someone else said; some managers are just bad. Might be learning how to negotiate will help. But might also be a mindset and skills problem: often you can do same amount of work with less time if you approach it correctly.

For example, you can figure out which features are really necessary, and work on those first. Then when you inevitably run out of time you can say "I did A B and C, but did we really need X Y Z?" "Well... I guess not."

More here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/

Might also be a can-do attitude. If you can't say no you'll always end up with "too much work".

That's what I mean by negotiating. "Sure I can do that" when you actually can't isn't a good move for you, nor for your employer.

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