Virtual Employee

Spencer Freeman is president of Freeman and Son Fire Restoration in LA, California. Oliver Cantt is the CEO of Exxoss, a Belgian IT infrastructure company. Kevin Norton, a leading Health and Exercise Specialist is the CIO of Adelaide Fitness Solutions, a new age Fitness and Lifestyle Club co-owned and operated by former Adelaide Crows Player and Sports Scientist Brett Burton. Malcolm Paice is the COO of the Keystone Group, a recruitment firm based in London. Now you might be wondering why I jotted down the names of these four gentlemen, who by all accounts, exist on four corners of the globe. Well, for starters, all of them lead, what can be defined as, small and medium businesses. And secondly, all of them have had to hire virtual assistants in India. And they are not alone. This is a global trend now amongst developed economies. We look into the four of the biggest reasons why the remote personal assistant has become so ubiquitous amongst small and medium busin...

A report claims that “….U.S.-based small and medium sized businesses face an almost 12 percent chance that they it will be hit with an employment claim, with their chances much higher in certain states.” If you own a small and medium business, how many times have you been left frowning at inflexible labor laws and rising remuneration costs? Especially in recent years? Get this, while American firms were downsizing in 2010, the U.S, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission saw a record 99,922 discrimination claims filed in the fiscal year ending September 30.   It was the highest number of cases brought in the agency's 45-year history. And according to EEOC, the average payout in such cases exceeded $ 2, 35, 000. An amount like that is enough to kill or at least cripple a small or medium sized business, resulting in even more job losses. And that’s why, businesses have started looking abroad, not just to cut down costs, but also escape rather debilitating federal laws. The ...