the idea that work will always take as long as the time available for itWord Origin1950s: named after Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909–93), English writer.CulturePeople often mention Parkinson's law when talking humorously about bureaucracy(= a system of official rules and ways of doing things which seem too complicated). The historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993) first wrote about the idea in his book about the British Civil Service, Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (1957).
