So if you have a job in software, you've probably dealt with this scenario before. Your company goes through a round of layoffs to better match expenses with revenue. A valid and sometimes necessary business decision. BUT, if you rewind the clock back to when all the decision makers were making their optimistic predictions about how much money the company was going to make,  they were guessing, perhaps using some data points, some analysis and research but when it gets down to it they were guessing.

Fast forward back to now. Your overall capacity to get work done has been reduced, the decision makers have acknowledged that they guessed wrong and now the fun starts. The decision makers somehow forget that with less capacity means less work gets done, and you, the lucky Joe who got to keep his job are now being asked to work harder, dare I say guilted into providing free work(and hours off your life) "for the good of the company", so you can be a "team player". 

So even though the decision makers know that customers aren't buying the amount of work that has already been delivered like they had projected a year ago, and they have made the decision to cripple the company's capacity to produce, they WILL NOT, scale back their projections on how much work can get done. 

If you ever stopped working long enough to wonder why, maybe you would consider what motivates the decision makers. Maybe you will realize that though at your company everyone might get a bonus, a decision maker(the one ruining your life for the foreseeable future) likely gets a bigger bonus than you.

Which makes sense. It's more economical to pay 10 decision makers a $10,000 bonus than it is to pay 180 disgruntled worker bees a $1,000 bonus. And of course it's likely the amount of their bonus is contingent on meeting goals like meeting their (already acknowledged) bullshit projections.

So there you go, something to think about when you are missing your kids soccer game or first piano recital because you are in your cube trying your best to meet that deadline, being a team player. Hope that bonus is worth it.