Manual Excel work hides a steep opportunity cost. This article shows how to calculate the cost—and how to eliminate it.

The High Opportunity Cost of Doing Excel Scutwork

ByCharley Kyd

Here’s how companies lose thousands of dollars per employee, per month by failing to upgrade their Excel workflows. SUMMARY: Excel scutwork—manual Excel reporting—is a significant drain on your company’s time, talent, and strategic potential. It traps professionals stuck in low-value tasks that stall progress, bury insight, and burn out Excel users and their managers. This…

Don’t quit—transform. Use the Excel Data Plumbing Strategy to automate scutwork and build the meaningful job hiding in your current one.

How to Do More Meaningful Work in Any Company

ByCharley Kyd

SUMMARY: Excel professionals achieve more meaningful work by adopting an all-Excel strategy that automates repetitive tasks and scales reporting—with help from ChatGPT or Copilot. By building flowbooks that streamline data imports, transformation, and output, users can process larger datasets, drive cross-functional analytics, and tailor outputs to varied stakeholder needs. This shift from scutwork to brainwork…