- The idea that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Parkinson’s Law is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization. It was stated in 1955 by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in an essay published in The Economist. A popular corollary is that “Work contracts to fit in the time we give it.” ← Wikipedia
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