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Rehovot, Lets Celebrate Administrative Professionals Day
About Administrative Professionals Day USA
If you're at work right now, look around at your office mates. Who are the people who keep your office running smoothly? It's a good bet that many of them are administrative professionals.
They're the administrative assistants, support staff, office managers and secretaries who keep the day-to-day operations of your office running smoothly. They're the ones who know how to set up a conference call and help you when you can't figure out the office machines or just plain need to get stuff done. Their contributions are often behind the scenes, but it's nearly impossible to imagine an office that doesn't depend on them.
What do they get for all their efforts? Most of the time, nothing but an occasional "thanks" in passing, along with the vaguely comforting knowledge that the place would fall apart without them. But during the week of April 24, 2006, a whole week is set aside to honor them. And on Wednesday of that week (that's April 26 this year), it's officially Administrative Professionals Day.
Administrative Professionals Day got its start back in 1952 as Secretaries Day. Mary Barrett, president at the time of the National Secretaries Association, led the drive for recognition of secretarial workers, and Charles Sawyer, who was the U. S. Secretary of Commerce, proclaimed the first National Secretaries Week as June 1-7, 1952. The holiday was intended not only to honor secretaries and other office workers but also to attract more people to office careers.
As office careers have changed and grown, the holiday and the organization that sponsors it have changed, too. To reflect their expanded duties and responsibilities, the organization changed its name in 1998 to the International Association of Administrative Professionals. As a result, we now celebrate Administrative Professionals Day. Local branches of the organization mark the holiday week by offering seminars, presenting awards to outstanding workers and honoring office support staff around the country.
Whatever you call the holiday, and whether you're an administrative professional yourself—or depend on one—you'll want to celebrate the day and week with gifts, flowers, cards...something that shows how much you value the work that administrative staffers do. And if you're an employer, take heart. You'll get your turn too, when National Boss Day comes up in October. In the meantime, be sure to remember the people who help keep your business running strong.
Source: Hallmarks eResources on Administrative Professionals Day (last viewed 15 April 2006) [FullText] [Admin Professionals Day home] [Send free eCard]
If you're at work right now, look around at your office mates. Who are the people who keep your office running smoothly? It's a good bet that many of them are administrative professionals.
They're the administrative assistants, support staff, office managers and secretaries who keep the day-to-day operations of your office running smoothly. They're the ones who know how to set up a conference call and help you when you can't figure out the office machines or just plain need to get stuff done. Their contributions are often behind the scenes, but it's nearly impossible to imagine an office that doesn't depend on them.
What do they get for all their efforts? Most of the time, nothing but an occasional "thanks" in passing, along with the vaguely comforting knowledge that the place would fall apart without them. But during the week of April 24, 2006, a whole week is set aside to honor them. And on Wednesday of that week (that's April 26 this year), it's officially Administrative Professionals Day.
Administrative Professionals Day got its start back in 1952 as Secretaries Day. Mary Barrett, president at the time of the National Secretaries Association, led the drive for recognition of secretarial workers, and Charles Sawyer, who was the U. S. Secretary of Commerce, proclaimed the first National Secretaries Week as June 1-7, 1952. The holiday was intended not only to honor secretaries and other office workers but also to attract more people to office careers.
As office careers have changed and grown, the holiday and the organization that sponsors it have changed, too. To reflect their expanded duties and responsibilities, the organization changed its name in 1998 to the International Association of Administrative Professionals. As a result, we now celebrate Administrative Professionals Day. Local branches of the organization mark the holiday week by offering seminars, presenting awards to outstanding workers and honoring office support staff around the country.
Whatever you call the holiday, and whether you're an administrative professional yourself—or depend on one—you'll want to celebrate the day and week with gifts, flowers, cards...something that shows how much you value the work that administrative staffers do. And if you're an employer, take heart. You'll get your turn too, when National Boss Day comes up in October. In the meantime, be sure to remember the people who help keep your business running strong.
Source: Hallmarks eResources on Administrative Professionals Day (last viewed 15 April 2006) [FullText] [Admin Professionals Day home] [Send free eCard]
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