Taken for Granted

In the modern office workplace, many required skills are just taken for granted.

Workers in the knowledge economy are expected to know how to, say, prepare for meetings and take relevant notes, though I don’t recall being specifically taught that. Similarly, we’re expected to operate MS Word, Excel or even PowerPoint to the extent that they are useful tools, though formal training is rarely arranged. 

More importantly are skills in the accumulation, storage and retrieval of relevant information, be it in an email, or worse, in an online article which is gone when you go to look for it again.