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The Parkinson’s Law was first proposed by British historian and political scientist Cyril Northcote Parkinson in an article published in 1955 in the journal *The Economist*.【1】 The law can be summarized as: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” This statement indicates that tasks tend to spread out to occupy the entire time allocated regardless of their complexity. Parkinson’s observations have been used primarily to explain inefficiencies in bureaucratic structures