Will those 3 people lessen your specific work load?
One directly would as a coworker in my NJ data center, the other two would as well, but more indirectly. One would be in LA to help my LA coworker, that guy would be the least impactful to me as my LA coworker is pretty good and ontop of his work. The 3rd would be to replace the guy who left in Amsterdam, and since no one is there now, my coworker in NJ and myself will have to cover for that loss. So that will help provide relief there in the meantime. While I understand this was approved and signed by the CTO, I have no idea when we officially start hiring though. It needs to be soon.
Good news though, we signed agreements to stay put in our data centers in NJ and Amsterdam. There's been lots of talk to move both (which would be huge nightmares and if we moved NJ, could potentially mean my job could move, although it was always talked about just moving to another town, it could have been to another state). So staying put is good news to me, we put down lots of money to grow here though so we will be busy to end the year, but at least not as busy as we would be if we decided to move.
Also looks like I may be spending a few weeks in LA in November when my coworker goes on a long vacation. I actually don't mind that at all. I am dreading this Denver trip though, I'm just really not feeling up to a business trip this week when I feel like I'm just waking up from a month long dream.