computer use at work, and how many hours do people really work?

[cookderosa]

Have you guys read 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris? He talks about Parkinson's Law and how people will swell a job to fit the time allocated, meaning if you have all day to do X and you have 5 hours (but in reality the job only takes an hour) most people will still only use that hour. Not work related, but school related, he talks about how when teachers assign a big paper and give extra time to do it (several weeks instead of a few days) students still spend the exact amount of time doing the paper- not more as the prof had hoped. It's interesting. I think this must help explain why people have any time at all to goof around at work, maybe they just don't have enough to do! (now in a kitchen? Forget it, there is no down time....ever......)

I googled Parkinson's Law and found this How to Use Parkinson's Law to Your Advantage