What is a Virtual Assistant? The standard definition of a Virtual Assistant (VA) according to Wikipedia is: “an entrepreneur who provides professional administrative, technical, or creative assistance to clients from a home office.”

Virtual Assistants work as independent contractors which enables them to work for a variety of different businesses charging for only the time they are actually working on a specific project.

VAs use technology to perform these tasks remotely from an office, most of the time a home office.

There are VA teams and companies who contract with many VAs as sort of employment agencies working with VAs.