Virtual assistants get your job done
A virtual assistant is not a computer program - it's a person taking over someone else’s tasks via the Internet. The new job profile is part of a global trend, which started overseas with job trading platforms.
In theory, all stand to benefit
Virtual assistants’ skills are offered online; they can often be purchased per hour or in 'packages' only a mouse click away. Clients profit from the fact that worldwide differences in pay levels, exchange rates and time zones can work to their advantage.
Flexibility is key
Virtual assistants benefit from this new work model's not requiring presence at the workspace, allowing work from remote areas, flexible hours and acquiring diverse skills through interaction with various customers.
Opportunity, or misuse of disparities?
Researchers fear that these new markets create new kinds of precarious jobs, and undermine national employment laws.
Employment in remote areas
However, especially in countries where wage levels are comparably low and entry into the job market is difficult, this form of work can be an opportunity - for instance in rural or economically depressed areas.
Jagustin one of those profiting
Globally, it is a fast-growing market, with big firms starting to outsource even highly challenging jobs to the Cloud. In Germany, demand for and supply of "virtual jobs" are relatively new, so empirical data on market penetration remain scarce.