Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush

Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by watwut on Sunday February 04, 2018 @12:42PM (#16303738)

I agree with you in abstract, but examples in this article are quite odd. Leaving aside typing, which is faster if you do it by yourself once you learned it, they just don't take that much time. Neither travel booking nor filling expenses nor work related supermarket shopping. Even normal power point presentations are done very fast with company template. Preparing speech and content when presentation mattered a lot seemed to take way more time then layout.

Even candy crush is an odd example, middle management is not main audience and I doubt they play it all that much in work.

And then again in larger corporations, middle management (the ones that are not part of teams that produce) are what used to be administration. They have zero decision power, know nothing about projects they are assigned to and they are there to produce reports so that programmers don't have to.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by coliveira on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:57PM (#16304559)

It depends on how much you do. If you need to book travel once a year, then it is clearly easy to do it yourself. I used to work in a place that had a secretary available for these tasks. I would just give her a pile of receipts and get a check a few days later. The secretary would make reservations and schedule important meetings. This can save a huge amount of time over the years. Nowadays all these little tasks combined consume a lot of time we should spend doing real work.

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