abstract:A secretarial pool or typing pool is a group of secretaries working at a company available to assist any executive without a permanently assigned secretary. These groups have been reduced or eliminated where executives have been assigned responsibility for writing their own letters and other secretarial work.
He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarialpool to middle management at a bank.
Plus, in the modern economy, there's no longer a secretarialpool: More likely, a group of employees and managers will be pooled together to use the resources of one administrative assistant, who then gets to juggle not only their work demands but their desire to have their demands met before those of their colleagues.