Have you read the actual article that for Parkinson's Law? In there you will find the oft-overlooked Law of Multiplication of Subordinates. The findings were

Have you read the actual article that for Parkinson's Law? In there you will find the oft-overlooked Law of Multiplication of Subordinates. The findings were based on the expansion of Admiralty in Great Britain after WWI. TL;DR: administration kept expanding even though the number of ships was reduced to 1/3 the size. This is much the same problem identified in the article, what you have said and what I have seen in corporate america as well. Too much administration, some of it required via legislation/regulatory matters. http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 http://www.economist.com/node/14116121