Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

“How do you invest in your administrative staff?” Despite being offered a six-figure salary, I politely declined. Because being respected and valued at work is more important than a high salary. Yes, a high salary may provide me with the opportunity to have a cushier life. Awesome – sounded great!

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C-Suite Assistants

MARCH 15, 2025

And given that the cost of employee turnover falls between 16% of the employees annual salary for low earners and 213% for highly educated top earners, paying attention to the reasons people quit is very important. Not everything is preventable, and in these situations, you need to learn what you can from the exit interview and move forward.

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

TEDx speaker and bestselling author of Be the Ultimate Assistant, Bonnie Low-Kramen is committed to bridging the gaps between executives and the administrative staff in the workplace. Based on 1,000+ interviews, Bonnie’s new book about the workplace is called Staff Matters and will be published in early 2023.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 26, 2021

Previous adminstrative staff were even tasked with making him coffee every morning. His expectations of administrative staff seem very outdated, more like 1950 than 2021. You said that’s not happening since you’re salaried — but being salaried isn’t relevant to what the law requires.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 11, 2018

The entire team is on salary, so it’s not about the hours but about the work. If these are salaried, exempt jobs, then it’s reasonable and normal that sometimes she might need to stay a little bit later to get things done. There are nine staff members and about the same number of attorneys. You can tell her that!

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 29, 2017

One of those things was the salary. So, I’m confused why they would want to 1) send me an offer letter that never arrived, 2) allowed to work without an expected salary, and 3) ultimately, told to come in for a second or third job interview. This is a salaried employee. Is this true? What is the ruling?

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 12, 2018

To make matters worse, my mother takes a hybrid micromanaging/hands-off approach to the administrative staff. I give a very low number when asked for salary expectations. No one here has clearly defined job descriptions and there are relatively few procedures in place, so fire drills are an everyday occurrence for us.

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