Source: iEco – Clarín.com
Few entrepreneurs launch businesses without prior experience in dependency ratio. A Harvard research suggests that the likelihood of trying to resign with a personal project depends on the characteristics of his colleagues in office
By MATERIABIZ | redaccion@materiabiz.com
Several studies about entrepreneurship indicate that entrepreneurship in the likelihood that a person waives his j [...]
Tags: Virtual Assistance, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Secretary
Is your “to do” list longer than your arm? Are you so busy taking care of the urgent that you never get to the important? Do you consider the thought of getting some help but then think “I can’t afford it” or “No one can do it as well as I can”?If so, you’ve got a lot in common with most other small business owners.
Owning your own business is a great achievement and requires you to wear a lot of hats: owner, marketer, finance manager, w [...]
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Regardless of their area of expertise, new business owners often find themselves filling the roles of salesperson, customer service rep, webmaster, office manager, and many others. This can be a practical solution, as it’s difficult to justify paying someone else to perform these functions when you have time, but not money, to spare. However, if all goes well, the day will arrive when you no longer have time to efficiently maintain all of these roles. Unfortunately, most business owners [...]
One of the biggest changes of this century has been the incorporation of women into the work, social and political world. They have entered massively in the labour market and in recent times, have done well as entrepreneurs and co-operating entrepreneurs, which means a major challenge for themselves.
This great change aimed at equal "roles" between women and men, it means an important contribution to local economic development and a considerable contribution to the business world, bo [...]
Telecommuting: has its time come?
Home Office Computing survey of Fortune 1,000 companies and government organizations - includes related articles negating telecommuting objections, persuading supervisors to allow telecommuting and a profile of senior editor Nick Sullivan's telecommuting experiences
"Telecommuting is not for every organization, but 80 percent of the objections supervisors have are based on myth. They visualize an employee [...]
Tags: Telecommuting, home office, telecommute
Telecommuting: has its time come?
Home Office Computing survey of Fortune 1,000 companies and government organizations - includes related articles negating telecommuting objections, persuading supervisors to allow telecommuting and a profile of senior editor Nick Sullivan's telecommuting experiences?
by Amy Bellinger, Helen La Van
The phrase the best of both worlds probably applies better to the idea of telecommuting than to almost an [...]
Tags: Telecommuting, home office, telecommute
Overworked? Try a virtual assistant
Working from home is becoming more popular.
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.
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The trend, which already exists in the rest of the world grows in Argentina. There are courses to train professionals to work this way with hourly figures ranging from $ 25 to $ 60.
Ximena Casas, Buenos Aires
No matter whether it is an employee or a high executive, whether a multinational or a Pyme, working outside the office has become increasingly frequent. The secretaries are not kept out of this trend. Some dare to start her new business and become Virtual Assistants. [...]
There are already 1 million Argentines who have installed their offices in their homes, the country leads this modality regional rankings.
They believe that 2008 will be the take-off of teleworking.
They foresee a growth of the activities for which employees are operating out of a physical office, but keep constant communication with the company.
"With more than 3.3 million portable computers waiting to be shiped for commercial purposes in the region during 2008, acc [...]
Tags: Teleworking, telecommuting
