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{{g}}The Jolly Contrarian’s [[fifth law of worker entropy]] states that there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time, ''t'', a worker spends on a task and its overall importance, ''i'', to the organisation.
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===Examples===
===Examples===
*'''[[Human resources]]''': The organisation will wrack itself for four months of the year crashing mainframe computer systems trying to get a performance appraisal system to work; enforcing its [[clear desk policy]], by way of putative apology celebrating the existence of one half (only) of the population, formulating and updating its [[risk taxonomy]] and promoting an internal [[career fair]], but expend exactly ''no'' energy promoting actual risk management or risk reduction.
*'''[[Human resources]]''': The organisation will wrack itself for four months of the year crashing mainframe computer systems trying to get a performance appraisal system to work; enforcing its [[clear desk policy]], by way of putative apology celebrating the existence of one half (only) of the population, formulating and updating its [[risk taxonomy]] and promoting an internal [[career fair]], but expend exactly ''no'' energy promoting actual risk management or risk reduction.