Vast swaths of the public service still have to use tools and manual procedures from the early 1980s, when desktop computing first arrived in government.
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It will be no surprise to working bureaucrats that government has an Excel problem.
Microsoft’s ubiquitous spreadsheet software has long been the workhorse of the public sector, and public servants use it for everything from office footy tipping contests to managing multimillion-dollar projects.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/why-government-has-an-excel-problem-20240409-p5fif0
