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The result of the removal of personal assistants is that today's workers need to spend a large chunk of their time doing secretarial work. For example, maintain
by coliveira 11y ago
The result of the removal of personal assistants is that today's workers need to spend a large chunk of their time doing secretarial work. For example, maintaining a public schedule, arranging travels, filling simple reports, typing simple code, sorting and answering standard email, could all be done by a personal assistant. This would increase the productivity of programmers and other knowledge workers. Instead, our society has evolved to make these chores a inevitable part of everybody's lives -- and as a result make money selling software that promises to help with these shores.
- lkrubner 11y agoPersonal assistants are still common for high level executives. I have a friend who works as the personal assistant to someone very high up in Google. What has changed is that the middle-level managers no longer have secretaries. This probably has an upside, in terms of keeping the mid-level managers in touch with the tedious administrative nonsense that the lower level workers have to struggle with.
- arethuza 11y agoOnly one of those tasks that I like having help with is travel planning and in that case you've got to have someone who is good and who you completely trust.