Published June 4, 2026 · Hoopi team
Assembly moves first
Across every industry and function, the work that transfers first is assembly: gathering figures from multiple systems, reconciling them, and formatting the result. It is the largest category by a wide margin and it is where the hours come from.
Analysis and judgment work transfers later and partially — usually as a first draft that a person edits, rather than as a finished output. That distinction held remarkably steady across company sizes.
The second job is suggested by the team
In the workspaces that expanded fastest, the second and third delegated tasks were almost never chosen by whoever bought the product. They were suggested by someone who watched a colleague get their Monday morning back.
The corollary is uncomfortable for rollout plans: the top-down list of candidate use cases was a worse predictor of what actually got adopted than a single visible win in a shared channel.
Where it stops
Tasks that stalled shared a property: no existing example of a good output. Where a team could not point at a previous version and say 'like that, but for September', delegation turned into a standards debate and usually did not resume.
The practical advice that falls out of this is unglamorous. Start with something you have done before, well, at least once.
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