Working with a virtual assistant may be the next best thing you will experience, but the reality is it will depend on many factors including your need to reduce workload and increase your business competitiveness. You may be deciding now whether you will hire a virtual assistant on a full time or part-time term.
When it comes to recruiting a virtual assistant, one of the issues business owners often consider is whether they should engage in the full or part-time service of a virtual assistant. To help you decide, you can ask these two basic questions:
- Do I have sufficient work to delegate to a virtual assistant?
- Now that my business is going digital, do I need the same amount of help as I did with my office-based assistant?
The digital era changed the way businesses set up systems, including establishing workspace setup. The increase in demand for virtual assistants changed the way VAs work. Before virtual assistants were limited to administrative assistant functions but now, there are VAs for almost everything – web designing, transcriptions, customer service, digital marketing, real estate, education and training, and healthcare services. Name the tasks you need help with, there is a virtual assistant for it.
VALUE Virtual Assistants and flexible work arrangements
You can fully enjoy the benefits of working with a virtual assistant and reach your business’ full potential when you outsource the right virtual assistant from the right remote staffing company.
VALUE Virtual Assistants understand different business structure has different remote staffing solutions needed. This is why VALUE, committed to helping new and small businesses grow, provides options to business owners as to how much help they can receive from a virtual assistant.
Hiring a part-time or full-time VA?
It is common for business owners to hire a virtual assistant part-time, but it is also common that the hired VA’s workload increases along with the growth of the business.
A part-time VA option is ideal for businesses with:
- limited resources
- already have on-site or off-site team
- new business or a startup
Business owners hire VAs part-time due to the following reasons.
- cost is significantly lower compared to an on-site part-time or full-time employee
- it requires less commitment from you
- you do not have to find a task to assign
Hiring a part-time VA may not be the best move if:
- you are aiming to work with VA long term
- your business is steadily growing
- you have a lot of tasks on-hand
- you are a one-man team
- Missing out on opportunity to get in the field to meet new clients
In this case, you need a full-time virtual assistant who can cover daily, mundane, time-consuming but essential tasks for your business. Remember that your time is previous, every second counts and is equivalent to money.
Accomplishing tasks all on your own to save money may seem practical but you will get slow and miss targeted results which is probably higher than what you save from not hiring a virtual assistant.
VALUE Virtual Assistants cater to the requirements of business owners. Business owners can engage the service of a virtual assistant for just two to four hours a day. For full-time, virtual assistants can work up to eight hours a day.
Most of our virtual assistants are working part-time with multiple clients and get paid only for the hours they work. But some quickly transitioned to full-time VAs as clients discover the value they bring to the business and would like to collaborate with them long term.
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