Chapter 17, Additional Exercise 2: Writing a Directive

There are 20 administrative assistants in the six departments at your office. Because the assistants are free to take their lunch hours whenever they wish, sometimes several departments have no secretarial coverage between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m. Write a directive in the form of a memo to the administrative assistants explaining why this lack of coverage is undesirable and asking for their cooperation in staggering their lunch hours.