The virtual employee model of outsourcing far supersedes the freelancing model due to its reliability, scalability and ability to provide business control along with data security.

1. How A Virtual Employee Scores
Over A Freelancer

2. Freelancers and virtual
employees are different
 Virtual employees and freelancers cater to very different
segments of the market
 Both are significant players in the burgeoning outsourcing
market
 Both have their own set of strengths
 The market offers enough business for both these resources

3. Who is a Virtual
Employee?
 A remote dedicated resource who works full time for
a client like an in-house employee
 Work like local employees except that they do so
from the remote vendor's office
 Easy to manage, control and communicate with
online

4. Virtual employee scores over
freelancer: Professionalism
 Virtual employees work out of the well-maintained office of the
service provider
 Has access to the best infrastructure, hardware, software and
technology
 This ease of working makes them the best resources
 Can easily handle high-end specialized functions like engineering
and animation
 A freelancer usually works from home
 Cannot replicate the office environment and infrastructure at home

5. Virtual employee scores over
freelancer: Collaboration
 A long-term IT work calls for intensive levels of collaboration
 A virtual employee provides better collaboration than a freelancer
 Close collaboration with a freelancer is almost impossible
 This is due to the time zone differences between India and the
western countries
 A freelancer does not have advanced communication technology at
home
 A virtual employee, on the other hand, can work the same shift
hours as the western client

6. Virtual employee scores over
freelancer: Duration of work
 Freelancers work alone and usually handle more than one client at a time
 Virtual employees work from a supervised office and only for one client at a time
 Freelancers are tailor-made for short-term work
 Virtual employees are ideal for both short-term and long-term work
 It is risky to hire freelancers for long-term work for they are not accessible
 With a virtual employee, you can collaborate as per your convenience
 Freelancer have limited time and resources
 Virtual employees have access to the best resources

7. Virtual employee scores over
freelancer: Data security
 Control and data security are the main concerns of clients
 These concerns apply more to freelancers
 Freelancers play the lone hand and work unsupervised
 They work on several varied assignments at the same time
 Remote dedicated employees operate from supervised and
 controlled offices of the vendor
 These offices are well equipped with data safety hardware and software

8. Virtual employee scores over
freelancer: Different demands
• A virtual employee can work for years with the same client
• A freelancer cannot do so as they give priority to better
paying jobs
• A virtual employee can do high end jobs like engineering and
IT development
• Freelancers can only handle low-end and short-term work

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