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What is Parkinson’s Law?

Parkinson’s law states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. 

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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. 

Parkinson’s Law

It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” British naval historian and author Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote that opening line for an essay in The Economist in 1955, but the concept known as ‘Parkinson’s Law’...

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Parkinson’s second law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

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