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Why doesn't manager A, who is manager of official A, keep track of the work that official A does? That person could deny the unnecessary budget for more underlings and hold official A to be accountable for their work.

I don't think these can really be called statistical proofs either. There are some proof like axioms but it's being applied to social orders where there's nothing very logical happening.

The original paper was published in 1955. Now that we have issue tracking software which management can easily use to determine the efficiency of each worker, isn't this type of bureaucratic bloat a bit harder?

Would you consider issues to be easily measurable in terms of work required? Given more time would you clean up those unit tests and cover some additional cases?

Parkinson also expanded it into a very short book.

I find this recursively brilliant.

I wonder how much, or if, he had to fight with the publishers about padding the page count.

https://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf