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Back Office Outsourcing Trends in the United Kingdom
UK Trends in Back Office Outsourcing Businesses in the United Kingdom have been outsourcing back-office functions for at least the last five years, during which it has been a strategy filtering down from the largest enterprises to become a feature of medium-sized and...
USA Businesses and Back-Office Outsourcing: The Trends You Need to Know
Back-Office Outsourcing Trends in the USA Today No country in the world has embraced the concept of back-office outsourcing like the United States. Even despite well-publicized concerns about the impact on the domestic employment market, US companies continue...
Advantages of Virtual Assistants: The Productivity Perspective
It is not difficult to find articles explaining how virtual assistants can help you boost the productivity of your business, but you’ve probably noticed that many of them simply approach the topic by listing tasks that you can outsource to a VA. While that can, of...
5 Tips for Building an Offshore Virtual Business Team
With the virtual assistant industry booming as it is in developing countries like the Philippines, it’s hardly surprising that many small businesses around the world are taking advantage of the availability of skilled professionals prepared to dedicate their services...
Niche Virtual Assistants: Their Value to Your Small-Business
Are you running a business on your own or with a very small team of employees? If so, perhaps you have already hired a general virtual assistant to help, or are considering doing so. The virtual assistant industry is growing rapidly and many small businesses now use...
Outsourcing Business Activities: Does Core Versus Non-Core Matter?
Among the reasons prompting decision-makers in small businesses to hire virtual assistants, one of the most common is to minimize the time spent internally on non-core business tasks. There is no doubt that this is a very good reason to outsource, but it’s not always...
Dedicated Virtual Assistant or VA Team: Which is Better?
When you decide to augment your business team with the services of a freelance virtual assistant or a VA company, you have a few different options available to you. A freelancer will, of course, be dedicated to serving your business while contracted, but when it comes...
The Perpetual Question of Ethics in Outsourcing
We published a post a couple of months ago about one of the burning ethical questions of outsourcing. It was the question as to whether outsourcing to overseas countries deprives people of home of job opportunities. This question is one of two discussed time and again...
3 Ways to Spend the Time You Save by Outsourcing
Here on the Virtual Done Well blog, we spend a lot of time sharing tips for effective outsourcing, so to ring the changes a little, we're going to take a slightly different tack with this particular article. Instead of focusing on the outsourcing process, we thought...
Some Attributes to Look for when Interviewing Virtual Assistants
Virtual Assistant Interviews: Here's what Clients Should Look For If there is one thing you want to get right when hiring a virtual assistant, it's the interview. Effective interviewing will improve your chances of finding the right person, and also helps minimise the...
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