Question

Refer to the section titled Occupations with the Fastest Decline. Explain how some office and administrative support occupations are experiencing the largest decline, while others are experiencing large increases.

Answer 1

The administrative occupations that are experiencing the largest decline are: legal secretaries, executive secretaries, telephone and computer operators, switchboard operators, and word processors or typists according to the list provided.

Step-by-step explanation:

Administrative positions are on the decline because of the recent economic downturn where companies slimmed down their employment rolls. Those administrative workers who were able to keep their jobs were usually asked to do more like also research, get coffee, clean the office, etc. Many people who had relied on having assistance at the office now had to perform many of these tasks themselves, including answering their own phones and typing their own memos. In some cases now assistants were shared among a number of executives. More people are expected to take work home as well and technology has made people available to their bosses 24/7 and so more work is done at home and out of the office as well.