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>> Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available. People don’t want to look like they’re lazy, so they find extra tasks to tackle, even if they’re trivial.

This can easily be fixed with the right project management approach and incentives. This problem is mostly relevant in corporate settings where there are no clear individual incentives for delivering results.



Also, at least at the places I've been, finishing a task early just means you're "rewarded" with more work.


Working in a corporate setting. I think my management tries to actively counter that with arbitrary deadlines. That strategy does not work well either.


I think work is a gas. It expands to fill all available time, and you can compress it but the the pressure will rise.




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