My father, who was chief engineer at a small manufacturing company, had a favorite saying: “Work expands to fill the available time.”
His point was that as people we always seem to feel busy, no matter how much or how little work we actually have to do. His axiom is true only up to a point, as anyone who has ever suffered through an exceptionally slow work week can attest.
And yet, a corollary to dad’s theory is that even though we feel busy, we can always take on more work (again, up to a point).
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