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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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In its fourth quarter of 2020 and first quarter of 2021 financial reports—while many other companies were experiencing layoffs and frantically downsizing—BELAY announced record-breaking numbers. The choice to send workers home felt temporary in 2020. Virtual assistants, it appears, are part of the new normal.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

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They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners. Great work is almost never urgent work, and so we get swept away by the ringing phone, the jerk in traffic, the phone bill that’s overdue. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore.

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Joshua Jahani – Managing director of Jahani and Associates | Maximizing Your Financial Potential in the Future of Work

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So when most of their customers needs were in person, which is almost like pre 2020 retail, et cetera, the cost for that labor was low because there’s more competitive. We used to do phone and then it was email, and now we have these video solutions. To begin with, remote work didn’t happen in 2021 and 2020.