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Businesses are in it for the money, employees tend to be one of the larger expenses, so maintaining some bullshit positions that would cost them money doesn't make fiscal sense, so what's up?

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[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sometimes those jobs that can be automated are already. At a previous job a coworker had been asked to prep a weekly report. When he took it on, this would take him half a day. I wanted to work on some excel macro skills so I worked with him to figure out what was needed. Wrote an ugly ass macro that worked for what was needed. I told him in no uncertain terms he should not tell anyone about the time savings. He should use it as he sees fit.

Same job different person. HR business partner called me into her office. Had an excel file open. Ultimately what they were asking was for a simple formatting issue. I'm talking like merge and center or using the format painter. A couple times. It took her longer to explain what she needed than it took to "fix" it. She exclaimed that it probably would have taken her hours to figure that out... there were also salaries on the spreadsheet...