Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170415051621/@comment-734582-20170427151022

Kakashisologod1 wrote: I was saying how kishimoto screwed up with this hokage paperwork thingy.Heck we saw hiruzen going out on a mission as hokage(in konohamarus flashback). I think you're missing the point. The joke is that everyone sees Hokage as this "ultimate badass" position whereas in reality it's mostly a paper-pushing job. No doubt that this is inspired by Kishimoto's own experiences, since there's a 100% chance he saw his supervisor's work and undoubtedly realized it's a paper pushing job. Hell, in real life it's common that the higher up you go the more paperwork you have to do.

You can see across the series that the amount of paperwork increased. Hiruzen is often seen smoking and enjoying the outside. Tsunade gets increasingly more paperwork. In the Anime Kakashi's paperwork got almost comical and in the manga/movie, Naruto has so much paperwork that even shadowclones don't reduce it.