As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
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Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#2The list of things that the Executive Assistant is doing makes me wonder what real work is left for the CEO.
I also doubt the EA is making 60% of what the CEO makes.
Something about how our work is structured is really screwed up
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#3I work at a company where EAs are assigned to multiple people. As in, John Doe is an EA for Alice, Bob, Carson, and Dave.
They do the basic EAs things: Check emails, schedule meetings, review finance reports, etc. I doubt it's anywhere close to what Christine's EA does, but the idea that you're juggling the tasks of multiple people sounds like insanity to me. I hope they're well-paid.
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#4The list of things that the Executive Assistant is doing makes me wonder what real work is left for the CEO. I also doubt the EA is making 60% of what the CEO makes. Something about how our work is structured is really screwed up
Yeah this kind of makes it sound like the EA should be running the company. The only work the CEO admits to actually doing when she's not taking cooking classes or surfing is "showing up and doing my thing" at pitch meetings.
Such value!
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#5Is that even legal? Sounds like an export control problem to move that much sensitive data to the Philippines.
Also talk about inequity...
This reads like a tweet about how much time you can save by outsourcing your homework.
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#6That sure is not going into any job description for EA. This CEO either lucked out or this poor EA is overworking 10x.
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#7I work at a company where EAs are assigned to multiple people. As in, John Doe is an EA for Alice, Bob, Carson, and Dave. They do the basic EAs things: Check emails, schedule meetings, review finance reports, etc. I doubt it's anywhere close to what Christine's EA does, but the idea that you're juggling the tasks of multiple people sounds like insanity to me. I hope they're well-paid.
EAs are typically compensated fairly well. Over 100k is not uncommon. It is a very high skill job. But there is of course a huge range of opportunity and comp.
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#8The list of things that the Executive Assistant is doing makes me wonder what real work is left for the CEO. I also doubt the EA is making 60% of what the CEO makes. Something about how our work is structured is really screwed up
I'm guessing the CEO is involved in technical development. Nowhere does any project management, roadmapping, customer interaction, new product development, customer outreach, etc appear in the tweet about her EA's responsibilities.
I did not read this as "I only work 40% of the week thanks to my EA", I read this as "A CEO can get inundated with the machinations of running a company, so much so that the vision and direction-making is lost". So, they outsourced the machinations to focus on vision and direction. That's _fine_. C-suite folks always have legions of assistants, just they are sometimes called Vice-somethings.
And separating "work that can be done by anyone with a little training" from "Work that can only be done by me or an expert" is a great thing to focus on for management. It allows a business to get the right people for the right things. This even has a name: Business Abstraction Layer (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab... ).
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#9So how much does the Executive Assistant make?
Re: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time
#10The list of things that the Executive Assistant is doing makes me wonder what real work is left for the CEO. I also doubt the EA is making 60% of what the CEO makes. Something about how our work is structured is really screwed up
Yeah this kind of makes it sound like the EA should be running the company. The only work the CEO admits to actually doing when she's not taking cooking classes or surfing is "showing up and doing my thing" at pitch meetings. Such value!
If she knows the right people, that can more than pay for her salary.