 Here's why I employ virtual workers. Hey, are you thinking about hiring some virtual employees or maybe you wanna be a virtual employee? Well, you're gonna wanna watch this video to the very end because I'm gonna give you all the reasons why virtual employees are the wave of the future and we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Welcome to my channel. Thank you so much for being here and checking out this video. I'll make it worth your while. Do me a favor while you're here. Make sure you subscribe. Hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to turn on notifications. The bell notifications. There's gonna be a bell that's gonna pop up next to that subscribe button. You wanna smash it. You wanna hit it and you're gonna hear that sound. Just like that. No, I swear, really, try it. You'll see. And when you do that, you'll become part of the Fisher family, the VIP group that gets notified every single time I do a video. That's pretty cool stuff, right? You'll be in front of the line. You don't miss out on nothing, okay? So make sure you do that. Now, the thing we're here to talk about today is making money online. I've been selling online since 2009 and I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products and I love virtual employees. I've employed tons of them over the years and they usually do a pretty darn good job for me. But what is this thing called virtual employees and why is it more prevalent? Well, first off, let's take a look at what happens in the world. Major world events can really change the way we do business. Back in World War II, women were thought of as secretaries or nurses if they did any type of jobs at all. But that all changed during World War II because all of a sudden they were needed for defense jobs, they were needed for manufacturing. And the women stepped in and they did all those jobs that were historically thought of for just men. All of a sudden, women were accepted in the workforce and we understood that they were just as valuable as any man. And as the years went on, all of a sudden they got into all kinds of occupations. They're now in engineering and doctors and astronauts and anything a man can do. And I used to kid around with my daughter, I said, women can do anything a man can do plus they can have babies. So the women can do all these different things and it changed the workforce. That World War II literally changed the workforce and it changed the position of women in our workforce which was a pretty cool thing. Now, we've recently experienced a little thing you may have heard about it called a pandemic. And this pandemic has actually changed our workforce again. It's made us rethink going to offices, being stuffed into building with hundreds or thousands of people and spreading germs and it made us do things differently. Now, this may blow your mind, but in a recent survey, according to some estimates, 91% of HR leaders have said that their companies have some type of virtual workers at home, telecommuting. So it has really changed the landscape of the workforce at this point. Now, as somebody who started their business in 2009, selling things online, I saw the benefits of working at home or working virtually. I can work at a coffee shop. I can work at a hotel lobby. I can work on a beach, a cruise ship, anywhere I wanna work, as long as I have an internet connection. Now, if you're watching this video, you probably get that. You probably see the benefits of that. And there are a lot of benefits from being able to work from just about anywhere. And you know, even before the pandemic, we were kinda seeing this anyhow. We've seen a 173% increase from 2005 to 2018 in stay-at-home workers or virtual workers. Matter of fact, a 2018 survey showed that at least 52% of all workers in the world work from home at least one day a week. A website called Upwork has predicted that 73% of all teams will have stay-at-home workers or virtual workers by the year 2028. So what I'd like to do is I'd like to go through some of the reasons why we should have virtual workers, okay? Now, the first reason is it makes employees happy. Yeah, makes them happy. Don't you want happy people working for you? I mean, they've got a balance of supermarkets and work and money and love and relaxation and family. And if they can work from home, they can better manage their time, which makes them happier people. Now, according to a 2019 Owl Labs survey, 83% of full-time workers said they would be happier if they could just work from home. And 91% of the people that were polled who work from home say it affords them a better life-work balance. And at full 86% said it reduced stress when they didn't have to travel to and from a job and they were more relaxed. And get this, another 77% said they were healthier. They were able to eat better and exercise by being able to work at home. In addition to that, it saved them money. I mean, the average worker in the US spends anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000 a year just traveling to and from a job. Now, we're all going through this pandemic thing and 98% of the people who have been in a job in an office and put at home to do remote work, 98% of them said they would rather stay at home and do their work from there. Number two, it boosts retention. Employees say they would be less likely to leave their employers. Matter of fact, 77% said that if they could work from home, they'd be less likely to leave their job. I want you to think about that because if they're less likely to leave their job that means you don't have to keep hiring people and training people, which costs you a lot of money. So it actually saves you money too. Number three, it reduces the competition for talent. Now think about this. Not everybody can travel to a job. Not everybody has a car. Not everybody has the ability to leave home. Maybe they have small children. Maybe they have a family member they're taking care of but they may make excellent employees for you. It just can't get to you. If you could employ them from home, it's going to open up your talent pool and give you access to more talented people that can work for you and help your business. Number four, it can reduce your company costs. You think about that. If I have to hire an employee, I've got to buy this desk here and I've got to give them a computer and I've got to put lights in and heat and air conditioning and spend money for a space for them to work out of. If I hire a virtual employee, I save all those costs. All those costs are saved and I can pass those on to the employee and hire a better employee or pay them more and make them happier, okay? And I am saying share that with them, okay? Don't try to pay them the same amount. However, a lot of employees have said if they could work from home, they would actually take less pay to have the advantage of working from home. Now I don't believe in doing that. I want them to make a really, really good living. So, you know, I'd like to just pay them a little bit more. However, if you want to hire people cheaper, some of them say they would actually work for you at a lesser amount of pay. They would take less vacation. They would take less employee 401K matching if they were able to work from home. Number five, it protects the environment. During COVID, they say it took 10 million cars off the road. Our polluted air cleared up. Our streams cleared up. You know, birds started coming out. Our vegetation started growing. It did wonders for the environment. Imagine if we could stick to that and have fewer people on the roads and fewer cars and less congestion and less pollution. Number six, it can boost performance. A lot of you think, oh, if I have somebody work from home and they're not gonna work as hard, most employees felt like they could actually get more done. They had less distractions than being in an office. I mean, if you think about it, it enables them to personalize their workspace, okay? They can have the pictures of their family and do what they want. They don't have people coming in their office and disturbing them. They don't have other employees' problems being dragged through their office and stories being told and all the political stuff that goes on working in an office environment. When they're at home, they're actually more productive guys. Number seven, you gotta have the tools, okay? If you're going to employ people at home, that's fine and I think it's a great thing, but you gotta have the right tools. You gotta have, you know, maybe you gotta have Zoom. Maybe you have to have Asana to schedule all the tasks, that type of thing. You have to have fast internet connections. You have to have a way to communicate throughout the day. So all of these tools need to be in place to make that employee productive at home too. And number eight, I would tell you, gradually switch over to virtual employees. If you've had an office for years and you had 10 people in there and you just send everybody home, you're gonna have some management problems, okay? You're definitely gonna have some management problems. You're gonna have to put in new systems. You're gonna have to gradually do it. Maybe they start out one day a week or, you know, in the mornings, they work at home and they come in the afternoon, but certain things you're gonna have to get in place. It's not as easy as, hey, everybody go home and work now. I know with my employees, they have manuals. They have, you know, training videos. We do meetings, you know, online. So you can't just put somebody at home and never meet with them and not check and see what they're doing and not talk to them about what they need because if they feel like they're not getting what they need, then they're gonna become unhappy and you won't have a productive employee. So you wanna always check in with them and say, what can I do for you? You know, what do you need? And keep in mind, as an employer, your job is not to order people around and have them do stuff for you. Your job is to support somebody to help them build your business, okay? You gotta think of them as a real asset because they are, without them, you're not gonna be able to get anywhere, okay? You've gotta make sure you help them. You gotta make sure you give them the tools. You gotta make sure you give them support. You gotta make sure you pat them on the back every now and then. All these things are super important, especially if they're gonna work from home. The parting word, you know, the pandemic's been really bad and a lot of people's lost their lives and a lot of people are sick and it's disrupted our economy and all that. But what can you take positive from it? What can you change in your life? What can you do to make it positive? You know, maybe, you know, you can exercise more. Maybe you can eat better. Maybe you can hire virtual employees and support them and it's gonna change our landscape, okay? It's just the way it is. It's not gonna go back to the way it was before. A lot of people are gonna work from home now. A lot of virtual employees, it's gonna change, I don't know, maybe the commercial real estate market. Maybe there's not gonna be as many offices. I don't know how it's gonna change, but I know it's gonna change. Once you introduce people to doing something a different way, a lot of them are gonna like it and wanna stick with it. So you gotta kinda go with the flow. If you haven't considered virtual employees before, I would suggest you check it out, okay? Because you could probably do it. Certain services aren't gonna be able to be done that way. But you know, certain will. You know, some people will say, well, you still gotta go out to a restaurant and have a waiter wait on you. A lot of people have chose not to go to restaurants. A lot of people have chose to have food delivered to them now. That has changed. A lot of people who go to the restaurants now don't wanna deal with a person because they're worried about infection. So maybe there's gonna be iPads on the table to order your food, that type of thing. Maybe there's gonna be fewer employees out there and they're just gonna be bringing food out to people. They're not gonna be going around taking orders and all that. Maybe you can put your order in on a, you know, like I say, an iPad and get your drinks and get your dessert and all that. You're seeing this in restaurants already. I've been seeing it for years going in that direction. Our way of living is going to change. So if you're in one of those jobs where it looks like it's getting phased out, you may wanna check out my course, which is below, it's a $97 course and it teaches you how to do stuff online and make money. It's a $97 course, but you can get it free right now by just clicking the link. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit that subscribe button down there. Comment below. Let me know what you thought of this video. Let me know of any ideas you have for videos, any questions you may have. 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