Automatable

A task performed by Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

Create, maintain, and enter information into databases.

Green LightWorkers want it · AI can do it

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.

Worker desire to automate3.1/5

How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 9 workers).

AI capability today3.5/5

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.

H2AI needs minimal human input

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.

  1. 1Use built-in shortcuts, text expanders, and macros for repeated steps.
  2. 2Automate multi-app workflows with no-code (Power Automate, Zapier, Make).
  3. 3For browser routines, use a record-and-replay tool.

Tools that can help

Power Automate / ZapierText expanderBrowse AI

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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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