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According to Parkinson\u2019s Law, work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Let us try to understand this with the help of a story. One of my friends was working on a research paper and she was almost done with the paper. Her supervisor had advised her to make some corrections and send it again to her for the final check. My friend said that it would take around 2 hours to finish and then she will be working on her second paper. Suddenly, her supervisor called again and said she would be busy with some other work and cannot check the paper in the weekend. Now, my friend has two days extra with her for finishing the work.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, I saw her working on the same paper. She said now that she had more time to finish; she thought of making it more perfect. However, she feels if she would analyze the amount of work<\/a> devoted, she has not even done more than 1 hour work on that paper. This is exactly what Parkinson\u2019s law means.<\/p>\n

The solution here is to give half the time that have been allocated<\/a> to finish the work and should be followed strictly. It may happen some work would take more than the allocated time. But you will see most of the time you would be completing the work before the deadline and would have free time for other things to do.<\/p>\n

Thank You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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