THE GUARDIAN: How to ease your admin burden: top tips and life hacks

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In fact, form-filling is so pervasive in certain professions such as policing, nursing and the public sector, that people are taking “holiday” in order to finish it – researchers from the University of Manchester have even coined the depressing term “leavism” to describe this. “Everybody thinks police complain about the dangers of the job, but the thing they complain about more is the paperwork,” says Sir Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Manchester Business School, who researched this trend alongside Dr Ian Hesketh.