[AI Utilization Survey] Vol. 22: A bird's-eye view of common experiences for office workers | Company Employee | Work | Boss | Meeting | Salary | Annual Income | Occupation | Work Style | Occupational Commonalities | ChatGPT

The moment when you lose sight of who you are working for visits you surprisingly regularly while working as a salaryman or office worker.

Even though you should be busy, you don't know what you are leaving behind as a result.

Many people should be able to relate to that feeling.

This time, we will look at this feeling from a bird's-eye view, not from the perspective of emotions or personal experiences, but from the perspective of observation and structural organization by AI.

First, just one common experience for salarymen/office workers

When working as a salaryman or office worker,the moment when you lose sight of who you are working for, even though you should be working, occurs regularlyis a common experience that easily comes to mind.

This is not a matter of negligence or consciousness.

The structure of the organization and the business processes themselves make it easy to create this feeling.

What is happening

This common experience is not born from a single event.

In daily work, the sense of discomfort that accumulates little by little creates a state of 'not knowing what you are doing this work for' as a result.

Other common experiences for salarymen/office workers

From here on, I have listed several relatively common experiences for salarymen/office workers that are easily observed around the main common experiences.

Meetings start without the purpose being shared

Sometimes you participate in a meeting, but what needs to be decided is not shared at the beginning.

Even though there are comments and materials, the meeting proceeds without a clear goal, and as a result, it ends with the purpose of the meeting remaining ambiguous.

Evaluation criteria are hard to see

Sometimes it is unclear by what criteria daily achievements and efforts are being evaluated.

When the feeling of working hard does not align with the company's evaluation, the purpose of the work becomes difficult to see.

For those aiming for promotions or salary increases, there is nothing more troublesome than opaque evaluation criteria.

Important decisions are sometimes made during small talk

Sometimes, important directions are actually decided during breaks or casual conversations rather than in formal meetings or through official documents.

If this situation continues, it feels as though work decision-making is separated into form and reality.

Work boundaries do not align with set hours

Even if there is a set time for finishing work in the system, there are times when actual tasks have no clear cutoff point.

Because small tasks that remain after hours occur on a daily basis, the end of the workday becomes ambiguous.

What becomes visible from a bird's-eye view

What these common experiences have in common is a structure where the purpose of work, evaluations, and judgment criteria fade within the formality
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The work exists, but its meaning and destination are not clearly visible.

As a result, moments arise where you feel like you are working, but you lose sight of who the work is actually for.

Conclusion: The structure that makes you lose sight of who the work is for

These common office worker experiences are not meant to be complaints or gripes.

They are an organization of the sense of unease that becomes visible when you take a bird's-eye view of the structures hidden within daily tasks.

The moments when you lose sight of the meaning of your work are not individual problems, but are born from the system itself.

By understanding these structures, you might be able to take a step back and re-evaluate your own way of working.