How Charities Can Use Virtual Employees?

Charities around the world strive for one common cause - making the world a better place and making lives of underprivileged people easier. While it has been easier for the big charities to manage all of that (because of the large donations they receive all the time), small and medium-sized charities constantly face a hurdle that makes it harder for them to contribute sufficiently - it's the cost issue.

Charities need to be operated and managed, which requires human resources. There has to be someone looking after the website, someone engaging in social media, and someone doing the back-office work. For all this, they often need to hire people for doing such work all throughout the year.

While some roles in charity management will require people to be physically present on the site/office, many of the tasks can be easily done by people sitting in another country, with a salary much less than what an average employee would demand. Factually speaking, a virtual employee costs less than £3 an hour, while an average employee in the UK would have to be paid at least £8 for every hour. Quoting the minimum wage, it's still is over 60% savings, but statistics say that companies and businesses save over 70% of their costs only by switching to 'Virtual Staffing'.

Here are a few roles that charities can outsource to save a significant percentage on their staffing costs-

It should be stressed that charities need to save on their staffing costs. The money that be saved will end up in the hand of someone who needs it more than you and I do. If you happen to be involved in a charity and would like some advice on outsourcing, drop an email at rob@myvirtualpeople.com.