As businesses grow, small administrative tasks gradually become part of employees’ roles, such as chasing approvals, finding documents, duplicating data, and wo
We've seen this happen in almost every workplace.
A role starts out with a clear purpose. Then, little by little, extra steps creep in. Chasing approvals. Searching for documents. Copying information from one system to another. Repeating the same task because two tools don't quite talk to each other. Before long, those small jobs become part of the job.
Nobody set out to create that experience. It's simply what happens as businesses grow, teams evolve, and new systems are added over time. The work changes, often without anyone noticing.
Those small tasks didn't become part of the job overnight. But maybe they don't have to stay there forever and that's what progress looks like. Not changing the job itself, but removing the little tasks that slowly took over.