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The biggest point is more administrative staff would help productivity. I'm flummoxed by the lack of admins at the large, successful company I work for. Many s
by rubidium 9y ago
The biggest point is more administrative staff would help productivity. I'm flummoxed by the lack of admins at the large, successful company I work for.
Many senior managers and staff could be x2-3 more effective. One marketing manager spent all week doing ppt layout for a 10 minute slide deck for the president. Another BU lead spends hours resolving a shipping and receiving fiasco for _one_ package.
When these people do what they're paid for they are really good. But when they get absorbed into administrative tasks they're terribly inefficient.
- maxxxxx 9y agoTotally agree. I have spent months last year parsing corporate documentation rules. if we had more tech writers whose job is to make sure the docs are in the right form we could free up years of engineering time. Same for booking travel. We have to do it ourselves but still follow a ton of rules you always forget if you do it only once or twice a year. If we had one person that could book travel and get visas a lot of time could be saved.
- jen729w 9y agoThe “administration” role has disappeared. Now we have “business analysts” who, in many cases, do basically the same thing: they just get paid $600/day to do it. (Context: Australian IT projects, particularly those for the large banks.)