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The DB tracking is the primary benefit. Run a report on all of those paper templates. Look up papers filled out last Tuesday, or July 3rd for the past 10 year
by frumper 5y ago
The DB tracking is the primary benefit. Run a report on all of those paper templates. Look up papers filled out last Tuesday, or July 3rd for the past 10 years. The software only makes staff job easier because now they enter it once and they're done instead of pulling files and compiling reports as a manual process every time the boss needs something.
- datavirtue 5y agoLots of places have multiple software systems with "glue humans" in between to read information in one system and re-enter data into another. You will often find that management has no idea that they have extra people doing literally nothing. These data entry clerks have titles that represent a process so it's thought of as the person doing that job (and perhaps that glue process does run partially on their tacit knowledge). The only requirement was for reporting which their pointless task of data re-entry accomplishes. Not much serious thought was given to productivity really.
- agumonkey 5y agoI often try to estimate how much information is flowing in a give office. I may be wrong but I believe a recent iphone could handle storage and processing. Takes 5 minutes for a person to input a few tokens here and there.
- agumonkey 5y agoMan, trust me, they probably don't even have useful accountability . By useful I mean the db is there, maybe some very niche service has some statistical view of what's going on, but main manager actually gives tally paper for people to write down by hand what they do on a daily basis. Primitive redundancy on all layers, plus absolute fake data, any employee in this kind of structure will lie and double the digits.