The Philippines was named the world’s best country in business English proficiency, even beating the United States, according to a recent study by GlobalEnglish Corporation.

For 2018, results showed that from 76 represented countries worldwide, only the Philippines attained a score above 7.0, “a BEI (Business English proficiency) level within the range of a high proficiency that indicates an ability to take an active role in business discussions and perform relatively complex tasks.”

The Philippines, with the literacy rate of 94%, is also the fourth largest English speaking country in the world and produces almost 700,000 college graduates each year. The supply of well-trained and highly-experienced virtual assistants from this country is endless.

There is a huge advantage of using Unique Workers instead of hiring staff directly by yourself. Hiring and recruitment is a tedious process and when you don’t have experience dealing with a Filipino virtual assistant, the challenges are even bigger. We do all of these on your behalf.

Another reason is that we provide full government-mandated benefits to our regular virtual assistants so we can assure that they will give their best to our clients.

Culture and experience is the key. Our recruitment team has years of experience in selecting only the best people to join our team. We are very meticulous considering that we always choose people who want to work with us for a very long time, thus we provide the required benefits to make them stay. Only very few virtual assistant agencies provide these benefits and we pride our company of being one.

Any job that can be performed virtually can be delegated to Unique Workers staff. The shortlist include but not limited to data entry, bookkeeping and accounting, web and graphic design, programming, content and article writing, translation and transcription, audio and video editing, digital marketing, Amazon, eBay, and other online store management, customer support, email and calendar management, appointment setting, lead generation, search engine optimisation, and many more.

Yes, we do project-based jobs and we have a special team that handles this category.

As the client, the work time zone depends on you. If you want your Unique Worker staff to work in your home country time zone, that’s fine.

Unique Workers work a minimum of 10 hours per week and can work up to 40 hours per week. Staff are also available to work overtime, which is billed at the normal hourly rate. Since we are following the Philippine-government labour laws, there is a 169% additional overtime rate if you require your staff to work on Sundays.

Give us 3 to 5 days to sign and return the Client Service Agreement. Once we are done with the payment setup, we will install the staff’s time tracking software so they are ready for their first shift.

All of our Unique Workers are required to have a quiet place to work, typically a separate room within their house. They also have a reliable wired Internet connection and an up-to-date computer system. We require our Unique Workers to have at least 10Mbps of Internet connection and a PC or Mac with at least 8GB of RAM.

It is not uncommon for commute times to last up to 2 hours in the Philippines. Working from home eliminates this wasted time and leads to a fresh mind at the beginning of each shift.

We do not provide a phone system for staff, but there are a number of VoIP phone services that can easily be set up.