Parkinson’s law

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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”

For this real or imagined overwork, there are, broadly speaking, three possible remedies. He may resign; he may ask to halve the work with a colleague called B; he may demand the assistance of two subordinates, to be called C and D. There is probably no instance, however, in history, of A choosing any but the third alternative.

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• E-discovery
• Human, all too human
• Reg tech
• Chatbot