A task performed by Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Create, maintain, and enter information into databases.
Likely yes, and the people who do it want it gone. Workers rate their desire to automate this 3.11/5, and experts rate current AI capability at 3.5/5. That puts it in the Automation Green Light zone.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 9 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers want this automated
- Frees up time for higher-value work56%
- Helps handle larger scale44%
- It's repetitive22%
- It's stressful11%
How to automate this
Good news: this is a strong candidate to automate now.
Repetitive computer work
Record the steps once, then replay them.
- 1Record the exact clicks and keystrokes you repeat to create, maintain, and enter information into databases, then replay them with shortcuts, text expanders, and macros.
- 2Automate multi-app workflows with no-code (Power Automate, Zapier, Make).
- 3For browser routines, use a record-and-replay tool.
Tools that can help
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This is 1 of 15 tasks studied for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive, where workers want 13% of tasks automated.
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