Don't help them by proving that the work can be done with fewer people by breaking your own back for nothing in return. Don't say no, just say you're busy. Your plate is full. You'd love to help but there's simply not enough time for it all. They're counting on you breaking. Please don't.
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Remember: it's your manager's job to prioritize your tasks. Ask your manager for an ordered list, and you'll work down it as efficiently as you can during your normal working hours. The proper response to "I need you to do this new thing" is "sure -- which of my current things will we drop to make room?".
@OP - Some teams have been doing this for years. Example is mr. lourens team, which has a knack for offloading their work onto others and ultimately claim the credit as their win.
The company is run by the Executive Leadership Team, and they only care about themselves. If they could run the company with no employees, they would. As for tribal knowledge, they want chaos to drive change, and they understand the psychology of employees who want to keep their jobs. They plan to get rid of high-paid senior staff, believing that lower-level overachievers will fill in the gaps. We don’t have a union supporting us and fighting for our needs, so we must collectively agree to do the bare minimum, or the executives will win. However, that simply doesn’t happen, and the executives count on that. If your moral compass won’t allow you to do the minimum work, then please look for a job elsewhere that respects overachievers.
OpenText is not a tech company, it’s a financial company looking to extract money from outdated technology with little to no investment.
The executives are preparing the company to be sold, and if that fails, they all have golden parachutes for when they get ousted as the company goes under. The house always wins. We need to bond together and beat the casino, but if we can’t get everyone on board, we are just going to continue experiencing the same misery as today.