John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

Treat your OFS well and they will take care of you

21 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment by John Jonas advising that outsourced workers (OFS) are human with feelings and should be treated well. He argues that respectful treatment and trust encourage contractors to go above-and-beyond, improve skills, and stay committed; poor treatment undermines motivation and extra effort.

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So often people go into this thinking they're hiring a robot on the other side of the world who doesn't have feelings. They just, just get the job done. That's all you care about. And that's not how this works. These are people and they have feelings and needs and problems and wants and desires and. And yeah, they want to get the work done, but they also want to be treated well. And the better you treat them, the better they'll treat you. Like, if you treat them well, they will try and go above and beyond what you ask them to do. They will try and change. They will try and improve their skills. They'll try all kinds of stuff to make sure that you are happy with their performance. If you don't treat them well, if you don't gain their trust, if you don't do things to help them, yeah, none of that holds. They, they are not super interested in going above and beyond if you're not, if you're not treating them well.