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The Real Reason Remote Hires Fall Short

Name: The Real Reason Remote Hires Fall Short
Uploaded: 2025-10-07T17:01:30+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short excerpt from a YouTube video (by Peter Vander Wall) arguing that many remote hires fail because employers treat them as virtual…

7 Oct 2025 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video (by Peter Vander Wall) arguing that many remote hires fail because employers treat them as virtual assistants—transactional, task-driven workers—instead of defined remote team members with clear job titles and responsibilities. The speaker recommends hiring remote team members as skilled, proactive contributors rather than minute-by-minute assistants.

If you hire a va, like, they're going to act like a va. You know, that's the problem a lot of times with remote team members is you hire a virtual assistant, which is basically just somebody from a foreign country who you just tell them to do stuff like they're just your assistant. And it's a very transactional relationship. It's usually a type of person where you got to, like, tell them what to do every single minute of the day. If you hire a remote team member, they're going to act like a remote team member, right? So, like, what's their job title? What's their role in the company? They're like an actual skilled person who has a real job in your company, and they're going to be proactive with that job.