You're looking for Parkinson's Law. From wikipedia: Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It

You're looking for Parkinson's Law. From wikipedia: Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is also sometimes applied to the growth of the bureaucratic apparatus in an organization. He goes on to write about organization inefficiency, how adding more and more people make committees useless. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Parkinson%27s_law https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Parkinson%27s_law http://sas2.elte.hu/tg/ptorv/Parkinson-s-Law.pdf http://sas2.elte.hu/tg/ptorv/Parkinson-s-Law.pdf