For decades, executive support has been treated as a binary decision: Either you need a full-time, in-house executive assistant or you don’t. That assumption no longer reflects how most leadership ...

AI-driven layoffs at PwC, McKinsey and EY are wiping out six-figure executive assistant jobs as firms slash costs, offshore roles and automate support functions.

Hiring an executive assistant (EA) should be a strategic decision. Yet the process often begins with the thought, “I just need to get things off my plate,” and ends with a role so stretched that no ...

As AI automates administrative work, the most sought-after executive assistants are taking on bigger responsibilities and ...

Diego Oppenheimer, Seattle-based entrepreneur and investor, with his AI assistant “Actionary,” a personal project. (Photo via Oppenheimer) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent ...

Executive assistants at professional-services firms manage partners’ diaries, handle expenses and book travel in one of the few remaining white-collar roles that doesn’t require elite credentials.

Plenty of others are also vulnerable as AI rapidly changes the nature of white-collar work. Secretaries and assistants are high on the list of jobs that are prone to being disrupted by AI—and a ...