Do You Need A Virtual Assistant

Copyright (c) 2010 Nick Clipton

There are several things to consider before one could actually answer the question if there is a need to hire a virtual assistant. First of all, if you are one of those who has just started a business and not in any position to hire someone full time to man the office and yet find yourself in a position where you no longer have time to do anything else except answering phone calls, trying to arrange the work schedule and failing horribly as well as doing other tasks like bookkeeping, filing taxes, making sure that the customers and the clients are happily entertained and all other else, then you do need to hire someone.

There are two choices that can make your life easier: hire a regular staff or outsource or hire a virtual assistant. Either way will help ease the problems and they both cost money. However, there are differences between the two.

The virtual assistant is actually more cost effective, they are also cheaper. Because they are contractual workers, they do not need to receive the benefits that a regular employee would expect. They also do not have holidays for they work on an hourly basis. In short, you only pay for the number of hours that they work, nothing less, nothing more. But, they are better skilled than an office staff. They can actually do more things than one person can do if they are very good.

The VA is more flexible to work with than a regular staff for they accomplish tasks according to a deadline or they don't get paid, this is the big difference. Because they work on a deadline, they have to finish their tasks faster and more efficiently.

Another difference, they are multitaskers. They can do a lot of tasks; sometime they can even do them at the same time because they may have people to assist them in for the completion. There is actually some VA who works with several others which makes them more capable, and yet they are paid the same amount of money. So if they ask for assistance, that is part of their service and there are no extras charged.

More and more companies are hiring VAs because of the cost effectiveness in the action. There are fewer taxes to pay and definitely less money to shell out. And as more and more companies do these, there's even more who are joining the virtual workforce making the industry one of the fastest rising in the past decade.