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Overworked? Try a virtual assistant
By BBC Working Lunch’s Ian Jolly
The internet and other new technologies have changed the way many of us work and the titles of our jobs. So, instead of the secretary, meet the virtual assistant.
“VA”s work from home, offering services for businesses which might not have enough work to justify employing their own full-time administrative staff.
The International Association of Virtual Assistants (IAVA) was founded to alert businesses to the potential of using VAs, and also to give home workers a forum to share acheivements and problems.
The IAVA’s Bridget Postlethwaite, who has run a VA business from her home in the Channel Islands since 1997, believes it is an ideal career for many people. While office skills provide a basis, she says clients can often be looking for different attributes in their VAs.
“Companies get a huge amount out of it because they only use a VA when they need one,” she says.
“You get perhaps an assistant of a more professional level than you would get if you were hiring someone on a full-time basis.
“If a businessman can be out of the office doing something he actually wants during the day, knowing his VA will be there to talk to him in the evening if he wants, it will make a great deal of difference to everyone’s lifestyle.”
While there is no doubt of the growing demand for virtual assistants, it seems increasing numbers of people are keen to get out of the office and work from home.
New research by recruitment agency Kelly Services predicts that by 2020 one-quarter of all UK workers will be based at home, with half doing some form of teleworking at one time or another.
