make-work

noun

1. （占用人手的）无价值的工作；打发时间的无意义工作
   work that has little value but is given to people to keep them busy
   1. In some departments there is too much make-work.
      有些部门的无聊琐事太多。
   2. These are simply make-work schemes for accountants.
      这些方案只不过是让会计师继续忙碌而已。

1. But many of these were empty make-work projects designed only to inflate GDP, leaving the country awash in unused airports, unfinished roads and office buildings& and in bank loans for these projects with no revenues.
   但很多都只是为了推高GDP的面子工程、形象工程，导致这个国家到处充斥着闲置的机场、烂尾的道路工程和写字楼，以及为这些没有收入的项目所提供的银行贷款。
2. Employees find it ever harder to distinguish between on-time and off-time-and indeed between real work and make-work.
   员工们发现更难区分上班和下班的时间了&实际上是很难区分真正的工作和不必要的工作。
3. Instead of building roads, it offered cheap food, energy and make-work jobs.
   它的重点不再是修筑公路，而是提供廉价食品、能源和不必要的、人为创造就业的工作岗位。
4. Cash-transfer and make-work schemes are expensive: most poor countries cannot afford them.
   现金汇寄和勉强保证就业的做法都耗资巨大，多数贫困国家负担不起。
5. All that said, there are circumstances in which make-work schemes might make sense.
   尽管如此，在有些情况下，创造就业的机制也可能是合理的。

noun

1. active work of little value
   1. while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork

   Synonym:    busywork