As Vice President, her authority leads her to inform Michael of the impending downsizing or closure Scranton's branch faces.

[1] She continually reappears both over phone and in person over each season to assert corporate policy on Michael, specifically with health care plans,[2] sexual harassment concerns,[3] and downsizing.

[6] Her appearances in the second season during a 'women in the workplace' seminar[7] and a financial presentation with CFO David Wallace[8] continue this rejection, despite Michael's advances.

However, upon being invited by Michael to the company casino night, she is emotionally hurt by the presence of his other date, Carol Stills, and hastily leaves.

[9] In the third-season premiere, Jan approves the transfer of Jim Halpert to the Stamford branch after interviewing him in an earlier episode of the second season.

[10] She also negotiated a paid three-month vacation and Lexus company car to accountant Oscar Martinez when Michael ignorantly outs him.

She also sues Dunder Mifflin, claiming wrongful dismissal, although Michael is betrayed by Jan, who uses his private diary as evidence that the company mistreats its employees, and also learning that she gave him a scathing performance review while they were dating.

[19] Following this, during a dinner party, the two fight over each other's eccentricities and Jan throws a Dundie Award at his cheap plasma television before breaking down and nearly being arrested on a destruction of property charge.

Jan is not seen again until the seventh season, by which time she is employed as a hospital administrator, raises Astrid as a single mother and has recorded a Doris Day cover album.

In the ninth-season episode "The Whale", Jan is now back in Scranton, working as an executive at the White Pages phone book company.

In "Suit Warehouse", Clark returns to the office, having gotten Jan to sign on as a client after spending several weeks in Europe as her lover.

Jan's first appearance is in the pilot episode, in which she discusses the prospect of downsizing with regional manager Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell.

Despite this, Hardin expressed that the writers had wrapped up the series very well, and was pleased at the overall conclusion of Jan’s character, stating: “It was really great to see her back in the corporate world.”[22]