The Benefits of Working
With A Virtual Assistant
The Benefits of Working
With A Virtual Assistant
- Save your valuable time by taking care of your administrative tasks; freeing up more time in your schedule to grow your business, enjoy quality time with your family, or just relax.
- Helping you keep more of your hard-earned money by saving the additional expenses of an employee; such as office space, equipment, taxes, health insurance, vacations, etc., not to mention nonproductive on-the-clock hours.
- Increase your productivity by working efficiently and fluently on their own with their own familiar equipment, and with no in-office interruptions such as answering the phones or helping another employee stay on task.
- Improve your company image by knowing your business, and completing assigned tasks with a professionalism which conveys and accentuates your company brand impact.
- Help raise your business to the next level by performing activities you find tedious or do not do well which may be holding you back from greater success.
The Virtual Assistant Difference:
Virtual Assistants (VAs, virtual assistant services, virtual office assistants, virtual administrative assistants) are independent business owners with a professional interest in your business. A Virtual Assistant is your remote office, costing you only for time spent on the actual administrative tasks or projects you need completed versus the additional employee overhead expenses required of a full or part-time in-office employee:
| Virtual Assistant | Full or Part-Time Employee |
|---|---|
| Provides and works from own office | Requires company office space, furniture and equipment |
| Pays own self-employment taxes | Employee payroll taxes, worker’s comp and unemployment |
| Pays own medical benefits | Employee medical insurance premiums and retirement plans |
| Trained and experienced | Requires training |
| Self-motivated | Requires supervision |
| Paid only for work done- No payroll expenses | Requires overtime, holiday and vacation pay |
| Paid for actual service time only | Requires lunch, coffee and restroom breaks |
| Paid only for productive work | Paid for idle time spent on personal phone calls, in-office chat, or playing on Facebook or Pintrest |
| Communicate work to be done and pay a simple invoice | Part of expensive payroll accounting, tax responsibilities, completed forms, I-9 verifications, drug-testing, orientation, manage vacation requests, etc. |