Private business does this also. Our dept was over worked and needed help with paperwork, so they hired someone to do it.
Within two months, she was now creating even more paperwork for us to do. In other words, she was now part of the problem. It got so bad, that they hired THREE new assistants to work for her in the next year, one to create even more paper work to be done, and two others to handle it.
It even got its own new office and titles. It was now a self-sustaining fiefdom. I really understood then how the government gets so bloated, as they have unlimited resources to work with and no desire to ever cut back.
You just hope when the company you work, for does what you posted, that you can find another job or retire and walk away.