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The Most Mindnumbing of Office Tasks Made One Man $360M

36 点作者 monsieurpng超过 5 年前

12 条评论

seibelj超过 5 年前
My buddy worked at a health insurance company where a 6 person team essentially copied and pasted columns from 1 excel spreadsheet into another, 40 hours per week each, all year long. They were all middle aged or older people and had done basically the same thing for over a decade.<p>So he wrote a VB script where you could drag the first excel sheet onto it, and it popped out the second one! No need to manually copy and paste all day long.<p>No one ever used it and they became extremely angry at him, and eventually he quit as all his coworkers in the department saw him as &quot;taking away jobs&quot;. Now he does VB and SQL work for a travel company.
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0898超过 5 年前
Let me see if I have this right: robotic process automation means automating ordinary desktop software by simulating cursor and keyboard inputs?
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r00fus超过 5 年前
Does anyone know exactly what his &quot;bots&quot; were automating? Article is low on that content.
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sarcasmatwork超过 5 年前
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bnnbloomberg.ca&#x2F;the-most-mindnumbing-of-office-tasks-made-one-man-360-million-1.1216472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bnnbloomberg.ca&#x2F;the-most-mindnumbing-of-office-t...</a>
TurkishPoptart超过 5 年前
Damnit, I had 5 years of box-ticking work I could have done, but now I can&#x27;t because of this guy!
goatherders超过 5 年前
I&#x27;ve actually spun off a company to do exactly this for small businesses. Slack, trello, zapier, CRMs...the potential to automate is MASSIVE and a wildly underserved market. It used to be that knowing how to be expert at Excel made you irreplaceable. Same goes now for power users of Zapier and other workflow automation tools.
simonw超过 5 年前
<i>&gt; Japanese mortgage lender Aruhi Corp. started using RPA Holdings’ services in January 2017 to automate some application processes. It deploys software bots to input data from scanned loan applications and then check that everything is in order. That’s cut the average time taken per application to about 10 minutes from an hour.</i><p>Can anyone translate that into programmer-speak? Is this talking about OCR or a CRUD form app or something else?
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6gvONxR4sf7o超过 5 年前
Wow. This article says almost nothing at all.
neonate超过 5 年前
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metaprinter超过 5 年前
This is gonna be a mechanical turk 100% guaranteed
paulio超过 5 年前
I&#x27;d like a bot which ripped the articles from Bloomberg and created a simple lightweight output. It&#x27;s Getting to the point where I avoid anything on Bloomberg.
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lph超过 5 年前
tl;dr: if you call computer programs “software robots”, Bloomberg will think you’re a genius.
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