Bosses are the people responsible for giving us
fortitude and making our life easier, despite the huge load of work. It
happens that although we cherish a cordial approbation for them, but
lack the opportunity to display it. This is what led to the naming of a
National Boss Day, which provides employees a chance of exhibiting their
appreciation towards their bosses. The day marked for the celebration is
16th of October every year. Now-a-days, Boss Day serves as an
opportunity of improving the employee-senior relationship and
appreciating the boss for handling the pressure he has to face day in
and day out, to run an organization effectively.
History & Origin of National Boss Day
The entire credit of creating awareness among all the employees for a
day dedicated to their boss goes to Patricia Bays Haroski. It was her
efforts for having a day dedicated to bosses that led to the creation of
National Boss Day, on October 16. She was an employee at State Farm
Insurance Company in Deerfield, Ill and worked under her father. In
1958, she registered the holiday with the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, in respect of her boss-father.
Patricia Bays Haroski, instead of working under her own father, was
considerate enough to scrutinize the adversity and hurdles that her
boss-father had to go through to run the company. She thought 16th
October, the birthday of Patricia Bays Haroski's father, as the perfect
day for the employees to officially acknowledge and honor their Bosses
and superiors countrywide. Ms. Haroski's purpose was to authorize a day
to authenticate thankfulness for her boss as well as other bosses. She
thought of it as a day dedicated to the bosses, who make the workplace
much more congenial for the workers.
It was four years later that the initiative taken by Patricia Bays
Haroski's was honored by the Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner. He
welcomed the proposal of observing Boss Day and officially declared 16th
October as National Boss Day, in 1962. Following that day, the idea
became popular across the countries very soon and many countries started
to celebrate this day with full gusto. Employees across the world gladly
accepted the concept of dedicating a day to their bosses and conveying
their respect through its celebration.
