Virtual Administrative Assistant Vs Full Time Assistant

Being a business owner, you are undoubtedly busy and your focus is to make more meetings and bring in clients to make your business grow and prosper. With the meetings scheduled round the clock, it is impossible to manage your office on your own. You need a backup, a person who would be readily available to manage the office by answering emails, sending proposals to new clients and make a schedule of the future meetings. He or she would be liable to ensure that while you attend meetings, your office does not suffer and your clients do not keep waiting for the detailed email about your services as you have promised them to be delivered.
Hiring an assistant is something you should not do in haste. It is a very important job but an assistant does not come in cheap. When you are hiring an assistant, you have two choices today, you can either hire a full time employee at the office or you could go for a virtual administrative assistant. Both have their pros and cons but the choice is definitely yours to make. Let’s highlight a few traits of hiring both types of assistants.
Full Time Assistant
Pros:

• Get to physically meet your candidates while taking interviews. See their physical appearance before deciding.
• Have a person present in your office after you leave out to go in the field.
• At the end of the day your assistant would be physically present to give you a briefing.

Cons:

• Increase expenses on the financial budget.
• You need a bigger office to accommodate both of you and your clients too. Hence you need to pay more rent.
• With a bigger office and more people inside, you need a power air conditioner and more lights to keep the office bright. You end up paying more electricity bill.
• Pay benefits, medicals and taxes as per labor laws.
• Pay for the internet, computer repairs and the office supplies.

Virtual Administrative Assistant
Pros:

• No need to pay a salary to your virtual administrative assistant that carries benefits, annual raise, taxes and paid leaves. Just finalize a fee for the services and pay just that.
• No need to pay for the electricity bills, internet fee and the computer breakdowns.
• No need to pay for the daily consumption of coffee and other utilities.
• Get your work organized in an e-file and you can easily keep it in your records.
• Chat via email; have everything in written for future records.

Cons:

• Not physical presences inside your office as you leave.