My spicy take of the day:
Bring.
Back.
Administrative Assistants.
For fucks sake, have people in the office who are literally professionals in drafting and editing memos, scheduling meetings, figuring out travel, coordination with other folks, hell, making a good cup of coffee. It's IMPORTANT WORK!
@JessTheUnstill holy shit, ive been on this years, wholeheartedly agree. Good admins are a quiet glue which keeps an org running smoothly and i feel that when office work computerized there were legions of secretaries, typists, assistants who were laid off that were doing all sorts of communication work on the side that made work smoother. Especially when doing creative work, i feel that all the little administrative time burdens add up and break up the train of thought costing a bunch of productivity, making work more frustrating when you feel loke you didnt accomplish anything at end of day.
I think the rise of Project Managers as its own discipline is what business has created to fill the gap, but they dont do the day-to-day support that an admin assistant does. If i remember my Fred Brooks the ideal team was around 10 people and included a writer for managing documentation and an admin at least part time, jobs which have been eliminated on most teams requiring devs to step up, but devs are often amateurs at those tasks.
@raven667 My old office job created a Project Support Office to work with the project managers on the admin stuff.
I spent over a decade doing admin on the same two government contracts; everything from accounts and purchasing to security clearances and managing contractual changes.
It was always fun when a new Project Manager joined from a background where they had no project support.
Jess👾
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