I’ve never had an office job and I’ve always wondered what it is a typical cubicle worker actually does in their day-to-day. When your boss assigns you a “project”, what kind of stuff might it entail? Is it usually putting together some kind of report or presentation? I hear it’s a lot of responding to emails and attending meetings, but emails and meetings about what, finances?
I know it’ll probably be largely dependent on what department you work in and that there are specific office jobs like data-entry where you’re inputting information into a computer system all day long, HR handles internal affairs, and managers are supposed to delegate tasks and ensure they’re being completed on time. But if your job is basically what we see in Office Space, what does that actually look like hour-by-hour?
Let me take a liberty to answer for everyone.
Most of human activities now generate a lot of data, or require a lot of data to happen.
It can be anything from construction blueprints and software, to more subtle things like goods distributions on the shelves or schedules or whatever.
Behind everything you see in the world there is a data management, and behind this data management there are layers of people making those decisions from top to bottom.
Some of those people managed to create spaces where all they have to do is to say “nothing on my side” during the meeting.
Others are the opposite, have to take the toll and process the massive amounts of this data.
This is what the office job is nowadays.