The other day I was reading about a company’s budget and expectation for its workers when it came to crating some media work and as you would expect it looked very time consuming on paper requiring multiple people from a person dedicated to filming the project to actually editing it. Not only that, they had to pay money for someone who is comfortable on camera and the whole process can take at least a day or more. However, there were actually plenty of people who run their own business and do all this work themselves. Think of it like a traditional newsroom where you hire so many different people to produce the final product whereas nowadays online people have the skill to do everything themselves. It is expected that you know how to create and edit a video to self publish as an example versus just being a talking head. In a lot of cases too, people can get stuff out faster with equally if not better quality in a lot of cases.
I think it’s important for you to always actively see what other people are doing when it comes to work and general business operations as a lot of companies are simply ran by people who are used to the older ways of doing things or that the executives have no idea what it is like for younger people and the skills they were forced to learn. In a lot of cases like these, it should immediately make you rethink if your staff are outdated skill wise where it could be good to invest in their training again or if you are hiring new people to try and ensure they have those skillsets.
The reverse can be true too such as how a lot of younger generation have no skill in doing say hard manual labor or tasks without some AI aid. That would usually result in people spending hundreds on subscriptions or hiring so many people for basic items that anyone can learn to do. A good knowledgebase of people that can do it all is very helpful to determine what can realistically be done to improve efficiency and hiring the right people I guess you could say.