##  [Parkinson's Law](/index.php/parkinsons-law) 

  ##  [Parkinson's Law](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/parkinsons-law-0) 

  

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Definition

An empirical observation that tasks and organizational work tend to expand in scope, duration, or resource consumption to fill the time and resources allocated for their completion, often producing inefficiency or procrastination in discretionary work.