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Succession Planning For Your Executive Assistant Team: What HR Leaders Need to Know

Worxbee

Consider also that the average age of an executive assistant is 48 years old, with a considerable number among the Baby Boom generation working as corporate EAs and due to retire in the next five to 10 years. EAs to senior executives often take a leadership/project management role and could leave a huge hole if they left.

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The Future of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

Administrators handled many tasks, and had backups, cross training, and team-shared projects. Others could no longer afford to retire. I would like “secretary” to be a retired title that just goes away. They can be project managers, ambassadors of their manager’s vision, and more. What’s in a name?

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The UK workplace sector reacts to the Spring Budget 2023

Workplace Insight

Lysan Drabon, Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute: “Talking about breaking down barriers to employment is not enough. Boosting the creation of more high-quality and flexible jobs is also one of the best ways to encourage and enable people to extend their working lives, rather than opting for early retirement.”

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I currently work as a lawyer and undertake every day many of the types of responsibilities that make up an executive assistant role, such as administration, communication, project management and so on, usually in a very demanding and high pressure context, and before this I worked in various communications/PR roles.

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