Is coronavirus tolling the final bell for the secretary?
Philip Fisher believes that the end of furlough could signal the demise of the secretary.
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Ummm... what about me... is my profession redundant?
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (now named the Chartered Governance Institute).
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When I started out (x number of years ago!) I got fed up with being asked what my shorthand and typing speed was.
With Windows 10 and built in speech recognition all you need is a microphone for £10.00 from the local shop, nothing if you have a modern laptop.
I think almost every day how much more efficient I am with speech recognition and how quickly I can dictate short or long emails / letters.
PS All of the above dictated through speech recognition, just had to capitalise Windows manually!
Speech recognition. Tried that admittedly some years ago. Either lousy software or my accent (Not English born). Probably the software.
Will have a go again after this as typing with 2 fingers does not lend to speed.
Perhaps the best investment of my time at university were the hours that I spent tapping away at a tough typing tutorial housed on the servers. It was fun, and has saved me countless amounts of time ever since.
Back in my early training days, a whole bank of secretaries used to type up accounts from the scrawled numbers that we'd enter onto tippexed copies of last year's statements). Then one of the outlying offices jumped onto the IRIS bandwagon (this was on DOS, pre-Windows), and the rest (for the secretaries, at least) was history.
Personally, when I was an employee, I used to have a PA/secretary that was amazing. I still miss her every day. Yes, computers do I lot but a secretary/administrator/receptionist that understands accountancy practices is to my mind a valued professional in their own right.