Given that we spend so much of our time in the office, it’s inevitable that we’ll have to squeeze a bit of personal ‘admin’ into our working day. Employees are divided between those happy to share private information with a whole floor full of people and those who prefer to communicate in cryptic half sentences or make calls in the stairwell.
But those days of ducking under your desk to call the dentist may be about to end ….
Indian company Brickwork has launched the “remote executive assistant”, which despite sounding like something robotic designed by the Doctor Who creative team, is actually, according to Brickwork’s own website, “an intelligent graduate operating from [our] Indian centre.” For £8 an hour this intelligent graduate will do all the things our own intelligent graduates are too busy, too lazy or just too plain self important to do – making appointments and phone calls, issuing reminders and , perhaps best of all, waiting on hold in automated phone systems. Which are more than likely being manned by the people in the office next door to the said Indian centre.
And the beauty of it is the time difference – while you’re asleep, someone in Bangalore is busy getting your life into order, and you’ll wake up to a host of ‘done’ emails. Whatever next ….
