Work expands
to the time
Allowed for it
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
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Parkinson's Law
It states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
It started from the observation that the duration of public administration expands to fill its allotted time span, regardless of the amount of work to be done. The same has been obs...
Parkinson’s law
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” the English humorist and historian Parkinson wrote in 1955.
And it doesn’t apply only to work. It applies to everything that needs doing.
Set time limit for each task
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” If it takes you three hours to write a report, but you give yourself eight hours, it will take eight hours to write.
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