Parkinson's Law - work expands (or contracts) to fill the time available for its completion. When I was teaching English, for one class, I gave groups a human-

Parkinson's Law - work expands (or contracts) to fill the time available for its completion. When I was teaching English, for one class, I gave groups a human-slide puzzle activity. A group of 8 were given a number from 1-8 and arranged randomly on 9 numbered squares. They were to re-arrange themselves in order by moving one person at a time to the empty square. The last group to complete it was having a really tough time and kept complaining to me that they couldn't do it. After all the other groups had finished I announced they had 5 minutes left. They completed it just before the time was up.