I'm not sure which tradesmen are being referenced. My automotive career I had some written assignments. Repair orders, estimates, reconciling parts tickets, such things. Honestly it did not change for much of my career. Moved from paper to computer, still SSDD.
My teaching career... OH HELL YES. The difference between public tech school with high school seniors, and private for profit tech school, was beyond dramatic.
Public school administrators had us filling out, quite literally, binders full of useless unread garbage every year. A stack of binders, progress reports, grading reports, report reports... most of it trashed as soon as we handed it in. You figure out why, because that Bovine Exhaust was irrational to me.
For profit tech school? LOLOLOL....NO. Our valuable well paid time was not wasted on such crap. We compiled and reconciled grades each 3-week session, which was a dead easy job if the instructor did even the bare minimum. Occasional discipline reports. All of it and everything on premade digital forms. For most instructors that was about it. I (being special and stupid) had more paperwork because I was also working to develop curriculum. Not enough to get snowed under because the private school admin could read a clock and understood that time is an actual thing. Public school admin? Not so much. Just keep heaping more paperwork on and ordering instructors to 'Just Deal With It', as they themselves left for the bar.
To the point, have I seen teachers quit the job over paperwork demands? Yes, several, and really good people too. One guy actually said to me "I'm going back to building bridges. A lot less bullshit with bridges".
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