I’ve received this question so many times that if I had a dollar every time someone asks me this, well, I’d have another passive income stream! Seriously, this is the first question I get every time I suggest hiring a Filipino VA to anyone.  I get it. I wondered about this myself when I was […]

Most of you are not going to like my answer to this. But when it comes to stuff like confidentiality and data privacy, you’re less likely to have problems with Filipinos than people you hire locally. Just think about it. With an employee, yeah you can control the computer they use. But you can’t stop […]

No, you don’t need to. Feel free to ignore garbage applications. Those one sentence applications. The ones who obviously don’t know what they’re doing. Ignore those. Delete them. Likely these are new to the site who are just trying things out (not serious applications) or they’re scammers. You may also receive form or template applications. […]

“Hey, I hired a couple people and they started out great. But after a month, I noticed that their productivity dropped to the point that they’re only working half of what they used to.” I asked my Filipino team why this happens.  They’re bored. If you give them a super monotonous job, they could be […]

How much do they need? How much should you give? Should you have a policy for it? In our team, we actually don’t have a strict policy or tracker for it. The only instructions we give on it is if you need to take time off, tell us ahead of time. That’s it. Sick leave, […]