Is Parkinson's Law getting in the way of your productivity?

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:31:28 +0000

Parkinson’s law states that “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

It basically means that when we have more than enough time to complete a task, we almost always end up making the work ‘stretch’.

E.g. if we need to prepare a presentation and have a month to do it, we will somehow make the task more complex, procrastinate, work at a slower pace than usual, have more ’let me first have a cup of coffee’ breaks, watch 3 seasons of an obscure crime series on Netflix and finally complete the task on the penultimate evening.

Timeboxing on Tonmoy Goswami

Is Parkinson's Law getting in the way of your productivity?