◆ Software · Work Atlas

The real work of Google Workspace

Forget the menus and the buttons. This is what people actually get done in Google Workspace at work — the real tasks, sorted by the kind of work they are, each with a prompt you can use tonight.

111evidenced tasks
5kinds of work
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What kind of work is it?

tap a kind to filter the tasks

Which one is you, right now?

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Where are you standing with your work today?
Whichever you pick, the four prompts below cover it.

The work, task by task

111 tasks
hands on the workAcquire library materialsopen it → hands on the workAdvise on government policy complianceopen it → hands on the workAnalyse digital informationopen it → hands on the workAnalyse library users' queriesopen it → hands on the workAnswer phone calls and emailsopen it → hands on the workAnswer questions from employeesopen it → hands on the workApply knowledge of human behaviouropen it → hands on the workArrange for installation and testing of products or machinery.open it → hands on the workArrange travelopen it → hands on the workAssemble and arrange display materials.open it → hands on the workAttend industry trade shows and eventsopen it → hands on the workCollaborate with other health care professionalsopen it → hands on the workCommunicate in other languagesopen it → hands on the workCompile lists of books, periodicals, articles, and audio-visual materials on particular subjects.open it → hands on the workComplete expense reports, sales reports, or other paperwork.open it → hands on the workConfer with teachers to select course materials and to determine which training aids are best suited to particular grade levels.open it → hands on the workCoordinate with other departmentsopen it → hands on the workCreate information systemsopen it →

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Google Workspace's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.