Meet the virtual assistant, a creative new labor force that provides practical solutions for small businesses and job growth potential for outsourcers. Hire an entrepreneur The virtual assistant takes the role of the temp and elevates it to the status of entrepreneur. A virtual assistant offers several advantages over a paid employee. When you hire a virtual assistant you get all the benefits of outsourcing - no employee tax and benefits issues, coupled with the loyalty and steadiness of a company employee. If you have found that traditional staffing solutions don't work for you there may be many reasons.
Temps are a transient solution, and they can be expensive.
Paid employees come also come with a host of issues. You not only must provide tech equipment and furniture for them, you also have state and federal obligations, and employer compliance and unemployment liabilities. Then there are the benefits packages - sick leave, vacation time. It is estimated that the true cost of an employee is over double and sometimes triple the cost of their annual salary in terms of benefits and liabilities. Significant for some is also the loss of privacy and personal issues - you are sharing your small space with others.