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Skip to main content Accessibility help Accessibility feedback AI Mode All Images Shopping Videos Forums News More Tools Search Results Parkinson's law Book by C. Northcote Parkinson C. Northcote Parkinson's book, Parkinson's Law: Or, The Pursuit of Progress, is a satirical work that introduces the famous adage, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". The book, first published in 1955, humorously explores how bureaucracy and organizations become inefficient, detailing how staff grows regardless of workload and how time spent on a topic is inversely proportional to its importance.  Key concepts from the book Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. If you give a task a week, it will take a week, even if it could be done in a day.  Bureaucratic growth: The number of employees in an administration tends to increase by a fixed percentage each year, regardless of the actual work.  The "Inane Committee": The time spent debating a

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