Commercial Fixed Wing
Dispatch Dispatcher
Workload; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General None Reported / Taken
Weather; Staffing; Procedure; Human Factors; Company Policy; Environment - Non Weather Related
[I] released 50 flights in an 8 hour period. From the moment I sat down; the X area was experiencing moderate turbulence from FL280 and above. As a result; it became necessary to file the majority of my flights in this range; resulting in numerous phone calls from inquiring crews. The turbulence persisted until the time I was relieved at Xpm. Along with the numerous releases; ZZZ amended their TAF twice; leaving me to amend the release of 7 airborne flights in order to remain legal. I had one rolling maintenance generating numerous phone calls from just the one crew. In my opinion; this workload is excessive. Cause - Managements inability to properly staff the office.Re-evaluate the workload and [I] suggest adding more dispatchers to alleviate excessive workload.
Dispatcher reported excessive workload due to staffing issues.