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Parkinsons Law states that work expands to fill the time available. The consequences are enormous. Paid employees will stretch out doing their current task until given a more urgent one. This increases the cost of employing them. The opposite is also true. Given a lot to do and little time to do it people will get stuck in and complete all the tasks in time. Unfortunately many people cannot stand the pressure for too long. So management has to make sure people are working under some, but not excessive, pressure to make the most of their staff. And management has to remember that one of its basic responsibilities is supervision, not just handing work out but making sure that Parkinson's Law is not in play and that employees are not spinning the job out till knocking-off time. Parkinson's Law is common in public services where supervision is difficult because employees are often working away from the office, members of strong unions, not particularly loyal and working in an organisation with no profit motive.

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