Template:M intro work sixteenth law of worker entropy

The JC’s sixteenth law of worker entropy, also known as the “law of conservation of tedium” states that:

The total amount of tedium in an isolated system remains constant. Tedium can be neither created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another, or transferred from one system to another.

This is why all change management is doomed to fail, as one kind of tedium: that of having jobsworth contract negotiators clogging up the premium floor-space on the London campus, for example — is replaced by that of outsourcing co-ordinators, offshoring contract service level agreements, software-as-a-service providers and key performance indicators.