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Originally Posted by blankall
This is another thing I take issue with. Boomers claiming they did more work than we do know. As someone who relies heavily on e-mail and word processors, I simply cannot see how it would have been possible for the previous generation to do more work. I can instantly exchange documents and type documents as I go. If I had to wait for snail mail and secretaries to type up my documents, I would have a significant amount of down time.
Technology, while making work more efficient and less time consuming in some ways, also vastly increases my ability to multi-task and gain access to more work. I can sit at my computer for 8 hours a day and have an endless amount of work in front of me. This, as oppossed to dictating a letter, waiting for it to be types, sending it by snail mail, waiting for the reply, etc....
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I agree with this for the most part. When I started working in an office back in 1974, the most technological things in the office were the electric typewriters and the Xerox machine that was the size of a small car. Now days, I'm self employed, working from my home, on the computer and generate my work without any help from secretaries, etc. I am able to do more work in one day than the whole department that I was in back in 1974.
The thing is, I have way more work these days than I used to have back then. So, even though my efficiency has gone up exponentially, I am still putting in lots of hours trying to keep up.
Anyway, I'm slowly cutting back my work load now, and I'm going to "semi-retire" soon.