Many senior EAs spend way too much with busywork because it is hard to get a good personal assistant. This is currently so because:
There is no obvious source of reliable, vetted assistants.
If an EA wants to become an assistant, it is harder for them to find a job for EA or on EA-related projects.
Assistants have an incentive to have many clients, to avoid loss of income if they would lose their client. This leads to assistants having less time per client, and thus more time is spent on communication and less on work itself.
Assistants tend to be paid personally by EAs instead of by their employers. That leads to using them less than would be optimal.
There is no community of assistants that would be sharing knowledge and helping each other.
All these factors would be removed if an agency managed personal assistants.
Provide personal assistants for EAs
Empowering Exceptional People
Many senior EAs spend way too much with busywork because it is hard to get a good personal assistant. This is currently so because:
There is no obvious source of reliable, vetted assistants.
If an EA wants to become an assistant, it is harder for them to find a job for EA or on EA-related projects.
Assistants have an incentive to have many clients, to avoid loss of income if they would lose their client. This leads to assistants having less time per client, and thus more time is spent on communication and less on work itself.
Assistants tend to be paid personally by EAs instead of by their employers. That leads to using them less than would be optimal.
There is no community of assistants that would be sharing knowledge and helping each other.
All these factors would be removed if an agency managed personal assistants.
Kat Woods (Nonlinear) is someone to talk to when it comes to this project.