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  • Should Your Work Friends Include Your Assistant?
    Being a Boss | Business Etiquette | Career | CoWorker Problems | Office Culture

    Should Your Work Friends Include Your Assistant?

    Updated04/03/2021
    4 Comments

    Do you socialize with your assistant or secretary? Do you consider him or her to be among your work friends? Or do you keep your relationship with staffers friendly but avoid turning it into an actual friendship? If the relationship has swung too far towards “friendship,” how do you bring it back to “collegial”? Reader N…

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  • PSA: Administrative Assistant’s Day is Wednesday!
    Being a Boss | CoWorker Problems

    PSA: Administrative Assistant’s Day is Wednesday!

    Updated04/01/2021
    29 Comments

    In the past, we’ve taken polls on administrative professionals day gifts before, talked about how and what to delegate to your assistant, and swapped stories of amazing assistants — our roundup of gifts for your assistant may also be of help to you. Comments on our thread last year had some great ideas for what to get male assistants….

  • Being a Boss | Business Etiquette | Career | CoWorker Problems

    PSA: Administrative Assistant’s Day is Almost Here!

    Updated05/01/2025
    122 Comments

    As some commenters are noting today, Administrative Assistant’s Day is soon — right around the corner. (Most flower places are touting “Administrative Assistant’s Week.”) We haven’t had a thread on gifts for your secretary/administrative assistant for a while, so I thought now would be a good time for one. First, a poll: Years ago, a…

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