In 1955, a modern philosopher named C. Northcote Parkinson came up with the counterintuitive Parkinson’s Law: that the demand for something expands to match its supply.
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“Work expands so as to fill up the time available for its completion.”
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- Multidiscipline teams where everyone is present. Parkinson's law was written based upon the absence of teams.
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When time is limited, shallow work and time-wasters will be the first to get squeezed out, as Basecamp experienced when it moved to a four-day workweek.