Success

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The most recent recession was in 2020 and only lasted a couple of months, whereas the 2008 recession lasted about 18 months. What are my basic monthly living expenses (including food, shelter, health insurance, utilities, phone, transportation and childcare)? Consider your skills and upskill. What is a recession?

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

I would like to address the recent article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2020 by Rachel Feintzeig regarding The Vanishing Executive Assistant. And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away.

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Success

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

having already walked four miles with our son in the stroller, having shared a coffee and a chocolate chip scone, having imagined what it would be like to live in that house or maybe even that house over there , when I opened my phone to see a work email with a subject line: “Your Review Is Now Available.”. Then my dad died. In the past year.

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Ideas.Ted

JULY 8, 2021

The results: Increased productivity and creativity; improved recruitment and retention; less burnout for founders and leaders; and more balanced and sustainable lives for workers — all without cutting salaries or sacrificing customer service. As a result, companies didn’t cut salaries when they reduced hours.

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C-Suite Assistants

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The demand for highly-skilled, tech-savvy, multitasking administrative professionals who perform business and personal tasks has become so great that a new position is trending—the Executive/Personal Assistant (EA/PA). Last year for example, at C-Suite Assistants, only 7 percent of our total placements in 2020 were for EA/PAs.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

MAY 17, 2021

On the other hand, I hear from assistants that job descriptions are obsolete, salary bands are slow to move, and job titles do not reflect the level of responsibility for the role. The result of my probing was the cover story of the September, 2020 issue of this magazine called “ How is HR Really Deciding How Much $$$ to Pay You?”

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