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Re:Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' by eris_agx on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:13PM (#21546585)
This articles reminds me of Parkinson's Law: "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law

Without efficient ways of doing things managers want more people doing things like them. Like the traffic problem doesn't get better with more lanes.

Re:Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' by dredmorbius on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:00PM (#21549922)
Exactly and the point I was going to make, and pointed at in the article (toward the end).

Uncosted inputs will be used to the limits of tolerance of costed inputs.

Time is a near-universal uncosted input, at least in internal allocation.