Parkinson's Law
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observation that public administration, bureaucracy and officialdom expands, regardless of the amount of work to be done.
officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other.
mathematical equation describing the rate at which bureaucracies expand over time
Work complicates to fill the available time.
Stock–Sanford[who?] corollary to Parkinson’s law:
If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do
Work contracts to fit in the time we give it.[7]
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]
Data expands to fill the space available for storage
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)
extension is often added:
The reverse is not true