Many hands make light work.
My institute does volunteer work at least a few times each year. Last spring we helped a farmer deadhead (remove the flower) garlic. In the summer, we made bread for less fortunate students. Yesterday, we helped deliver charcoal bricks (연탄). It is something that we do every year and the whole institute helps. As they say, many hands make light work. It is also a break from office work and an early day.
Many hands make light work is an English proverb that means it is easier to accomplish something when more people are involved. In the case of delivering charcoal bricks, we shared the workload between 20+ people. It made it easier. This phrase is used to encourage teamwork.
Example: There is no way for me eat this pizza all by myself. I will invite my friends over because many hands make light work.
The proverb first appears in a romance story called Sir Bevis of Hampton in the 1300s. The oldest known version of the story dates to around 1324. John Heywood also included it in his 1546 collection of proverbs and it sometimes credited with first recording it.
See Also: Lend a hand, Two people shorten the road, In spades
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Reference:
https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/many-hands-make-light-work
https://thewordcounter.com/what-does-many-hands-make-light-work-mean/
https://thevillageidiom.org/many-hands-make-light-work/
https://www.middleenglishromance.org.uk/mer/11