Parkinson's Law
An empirical observation proposed by Cyril Northcote Parkinson stating that work expands to fill the time available for its completion; it is widely applied in the field of time management.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Parkinson's Law originally used the expansion of the British Admiralty bureaucracy as a case study, pointing out that the number of administrative staff is unrelated to the workload and instead grows at a fixed rate.
Parkinson's Law is more of an empirical observation than a strict scientific law, and it needs to be applied cautiously to tasks that require deep thinking.
Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
All Facts (4)
帕金森定律由英国历史学家西里尔·诺斯古德·帕金森于1955年在《经济学人》杂志上首次提出
95%UnverifiedParkinson's Law originally used the expansion of the British Admiralty bureaucracy as a case study, pointing out that the number of administrative staff is unrelated to the workload and instead grows at a fixed rate.
50%UnverifiedParkinson's Law is more of an empirical observation than a strict scientific law, and it needs to be applied cautiously to tasks that require deep thinking.
50%UnverifiedParkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
50%