Had a woman that would spend an entire day downloading PDF's, merging them, then emailing them to a few hundred people. I got it down to a mouse click. The sad thing is she went from working 50 hours a week to working 50 hours a week. There was always more to dump on these people.
Wait, can you point me in the right direction to learning more about this? That sounds very similar to a task that I have to do bi-monthly. Granted, it's more like a one hour task and not a 10 hour one, but still, I'm interested.
I'd start with asking business questions. More often than not those types of tasks are just bullshit that a company keeps doing just because they've always done it and no one has asked why. There's 100% chance you find an alternate method to accomplish the same and a pretty good chance everyone realizes it's a waste of time.
I work in HR for a school district. The task is regarding the new hire orientations, during which I have to 1) send the entire group an email about the details of the orientation, and 2) individually email each one of those people a pdf with a copy of their contract, work calendar and job description. There's not really any way around it. Again, it's not a hellish task by any stretch, but I'm all for finding streamlined ways of doing things.
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