I only had experience in 3 companies so far. Daily routine tasks are as they are. Nothing special. However, whichever companies and positions I have been, I almost have never seen productivity mindsets existed. I feel like it's just an optional uncommon individual trait, not valued so much, and deemed unnecessary to the point it is considered a hassle when offered. Of course it's just based on my experiences and not to generalize all companies.
I'm not an IT expert myself so I'm not talking about complex macro, python, automation and such. Just a simple data housekeeping for productive reporting purposes. People don't seem to grasp any numbers generated from their own roles or departments.
For example, since I'm in logistics, just as simple as how many shipments you had last month. Whenever reporting is needed, everyone always needs a long time to prepare, which they are not even familiar where to get such data from, then clean it up, and in the end still present it in a raw excel.
From my past jobs until now, I always had to create those kind of analytics reporting from scratch by my own initiatives. It always ended up being used as an official reporting method, just because they had nothing previously to compare it to.
But the fact that it has never existed and noone has ever thought about it since the first place makes me wonder whether that kind of individual trait and initiatives have any merit value, and whether that is an appeal point (and how to make it so) for whenever I change jobs and explain it during interview like "I streamlined this and that", "I helped improved productivity", and so on.
What are your experiences guys?
by shionemi