Quick check
Guess first, no penalty. In the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025, where do "Administrative Assistants and Executive Secretaries" sit?
- Expectations: in the Future of Jobs Report 2025, over 1,000 employers expect this role to be among the fastest declining by 2030.
- Exposure: the ILO's global index says "clerical occupations continue to have the highest exposure levels", and also that "transformation of jobs is the most likely impact".
- What's happened so far: in a 2026 New York Fed survey, "only 4 percent of service firms reported laying off workers in response to AI over the past six months" (Liberty Street Economics).
So the job is changing fast, and the assistant who runs AI well is the one who keeps it.
A worked example
Step by step
Anthropic estimated that "AI saves 87% of the time it would take to write invoices, memos, and other documents". Before you repeat it, ask three questions.
Step 1 of 3: Who measured it, and how?
Step 1 of 3
Who measured it, and how?
Anthropic, from 100,000 Claude conversations (November 2025).
Try it on meeting notes, with example numbers.
What if
Minutes saved a month on meeting notes, after checking and fixing AI recaps
Meetings you take notes for each month
12
Minutes to write the notes yourself
40
Minutes to check one AI recap
12
Share of recaps that need a fix
50%
Minutes to fix one
10
Minutes saved a month
Minutes saved a month: 276 minutes
An estimate from the numbers you entered, not a forecast.
Now set checking to 30 minutes, like a long board meeting. Checking is the real cost.
Your turn
Fill the gaps
Fill each gap so the claim matches the research.
What the research says
The WEF list shows . The 87% figure is .
Try it
Your steps, about 2 minutes
- 1.Finish your kit: under each request in it, write how long the task took by hand and how long it takes now, checking included.2 min