• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    in the end, IT is by definition always something administrative rather than actually productive

    Lol, what?

    Might as well say mechanics are administrative too

    • Laser@feddit.org
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      2 hours ago

      With administrative, I meant that IT is a about information flow - defining rules how data is consumed, transformed and ultimately output. These by definition of a classic business I’d see as administrative.

      I agree the wording isn’t good, and I didn’t mean it as in “anyone working in IT is just performing administrative tasks”, but rather that the field of IT is traditionally more of an enabler of other businesses.

      The mechanic is usually the actual worker - you run a repair shop - but his spare parts management is an administrative task, and nowadays usually implemented by an IT solution.