For a change, let the captains of Hong Kong industry, finance and administration take a note: leave your lunch hour free or devote some part of the schedule to marking Secretaries Day.
In the United States, the day has become not so much a marketing gimmick for the cards and gifts trade, but an integral part of the office calendar which in some cases has stretched to a week-long event.
Professional secretarial organisations are this week using the event not only to ensure administration assistants, personal assistants and others are honoured for their sterling work throughout the year, but to draw attention to the advantages of a secretarial career.
The idea for an annual day in tribute to secretarial staff originated after World War II when public relations executive Harry Klemfuss set about devising a way of addressing the shortage of skilled office workers in the US.
At the same time it provided an opportunity for the efficiency and loyalty shown by women in the workforce to be applauded, as it was in the war years when women played a crucial role in industry.
Mr Klemfuss and C. King Woodbridge, the then president of Dictaphone Corp, were working on a council charged with finding ways of tackling the office skills shortage in the US.
After months of campaigning their efforts came to fruition when US secretary of commerce Charles Sawyer proclaimed the first National Secretaries Week from June 1-7, 1952.