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That does sound near-trivial to automate, but then I've got to wonder how frequently "regular" is? Saving someone 15 minutes a day is gonna be hard to justify spending programmer time on - or paying for a 3rd party solution? Are there people moving those spreadsheets for like 20+hrs a week?



>Are there people moving those spreadsheets for like 20+hrs a week?

I am reminded of the Reddit thread[0] where one guy confessed to having automated his entire job.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq/reddit_my_...


When I temped at Bank of America, there were 20s of people who effectively just shuttled CSVs between points A and B, and a whole on premise army of programmers who made our work redundant. So...




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