In this short clip, Sam shares his practice of pairing one virtual assistant with every two employees and offering company-wide training on how to use VAs effectively. The conversation touches on how removing repetitive work at a systemic level — rather than individually — could make the average company 30% more productive.
Speakers: Sam Parr (host), Shaan Puri (host)
Virtual Assistants as a Productivity System [00:00:00]
Sam: Basically, I think with the rise of no-code tools, virtual assistants, all this sort of stuff — I think the average company could just be 30% more productive. We do this at my company. We have basically one virtual assistant hire for every two people on the team, and we give them a training that’s like, here’s how to use virtual assistants, get all the repetitive stuff off your plate.
I just wish I could hire someone to do that as a service — where he or she sits in product meetings, marketing meetings, logistics — and just says, we’re going to automate these five pieces, and continually does that across the company.
Shaan: Where did you learn that? That’s so interesting — to give VAs to every two people.
Sam: I just started doing it when we started the company.
Shaan: I think that’s pretty amazing.