We may distinguish at the outset two motive forces: (1) An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and (2) Officials make work for each other.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson

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Parkinson's Law (1955)

IT is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Thus, an elderly lady of leisure can spend the entire day in writing and despatching a postcard to her niece at Bognor Regis. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another in hunting for spectacles, half-an-hour in a search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition, and twenty minutes in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar-box in the next street. The total effort which would occupy a busy man for three minutes all told may in this fashion leave another person prostrate after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.

https://www.economist.com/news/1955/11/19/parkinsons-law

The original essay on which this eponymous law is based.

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