Sunday Firesides: Distraction Expands to Fill the Void Available

According to Parkinson’s Law, “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

A homemaker or employee will linger and dawdle over their chores and responsibilities because they can, in order to fill the day or eight-hour shift. How much time they spend on each task comes to seem like how much time each task objectively requires; yet w…