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What is Parkinson's Law?According to Parkinson's Law, "work expands to fill the time available for its completion". Parkinsons Law is applicable at both:
As a result, companies are growing just for the sake of growth in numbers of employees and people become busier and busier, even though they are neither becoming more successful, nor are they making (more) money. Two Factors Underlying Parkinson's LawParkinson says there are two factors that underlie the general tendency to which his law gives definition:
Original SourcesThis humorous, cynical look at corporate life was originally published by C. Northcote Parkinson in a satirical essay for The Economist in 1955 entitled "Parkinson's Law", followed by a book with the same title.
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