Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush

Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by sandworm101 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:47AM (#16303182)

Now we have 10 meetings a day. We pay engineers to take minutes (they are the only ones who understand the need). Nobody is fixing the spelling mistakes. Standardized formating is dead. And whenever something important happens nobody seems to know which documents have been authorized or not.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by coliveira on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:43AM (#16303444)

And then people doesn't understand why companies are so inneficient! Most engineers these days are slaved to work that should be done by specialized secretarial staff.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by Splines on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:20AM (#16303316)

I'd like to think that at some point in time meeting minutes are going to be completely automated.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by sandworm101 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:30PM (#16304728)

Not possible. Meeting minutes are far more than who said what. You need to fully understand the people and issues.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by pacaro on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:53AM (#16303204)

A pharmaceutical formulation lab needs to know which documents have been authorized, so I’m assuming that this is still a thing, with or without a secretarial pool.

We also all had day books with numbered pages for all working notes. Signed and dated daily, and when filled, archived.

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