In addition there is a world wide trend that the ratio of administrative vs academic staff keeps on increasing, in other words less and less people bring in the

In addition there is a world wide trend that the ratio of administrative vs academic staff keeps on increasing, in other words less and less people bring in the money (via teaching/research) that sustains the university. Hence the overheads go up, because those people need to be paid. Even more infuriating is that when processes get reformed/changed it almost always ends up such that the work of admin gets easier at the cost of academic workload (because academics typically don't have set hours and just do the work until its done). To give 2 examples, at a previous uni there was always a lot of buerocracy about putting marks into the system (lots of paperwork, especially if there was some accidental mistake so a mark had to get changed). So during the end of the semester the uni forbid admin staff to do overtime for cost reasons, however the work still had to get done, so academics were doing the admin work as they were not on a fixed working time. Second, at my current uni, when getting travel reimbursements, we are required to fill out an online form, scan all receipts and print out a generated form and send the form and original receipts to finance. So academics end up spending time scanning and printing documents that could just as well be done by a person at the finance.