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Parkinson's Law

Fleeting

observation that public administration, bureaucracy and officialdom expands, regardless of the amount of work to be done.

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officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other.

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mathematical equation describing the rate at which bureaucracies expand over time

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Work complicates to fill the available time.

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Stock–Sanford[who?] corollary to Parkinson’s law:

If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do

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Work contracts to fit in the time we give it.[7]

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Asimov corollary to Parkinson’s law:

In ten hours a day you have time to fall twice as far behind your commitments as in five hours a day.[8]

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Data expands to fill the space available for storage

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law can be generalized further as:

The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If the price is zero)

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extension is often added:

The reverse is not true

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