Let a VA Help, Silent Firing Surge & Your Productivity Planner - Feb 27, 2025

On the agenda: 

👌 Let a VA Help: From burnout to a $20M business.

📈 Silent Firing Surge: A growing workplace concern for 2025.

😎 Master Salary Talks: With this negotiation guide.

THE SPOTLIGHT 

Let a VA Help: From Burnout to a $20M Business

Feeling overwhelmed with work? You're not alone. Many working professionals struggle with endless to-do lists and tasks, but hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA) can be a complete game-changer. Just ask Pavel Stepanov.

From Burnout to a $20M Business: Back in 2017, Pavel was drowning in real estate admin work. Instead of burning out, he hired a VA to handle scheduling, emails, and client follow-ups. The result? More time for high-value tasks and skyrocketing productivity. Seeing the potential, he launched Virtudesk, a VA company that pulls in $20M annually and employs 100s of virtual assistants.

How a VA Can Help You: It’s best to start with easy, repetitive and smaller tasks that are eating up your time. Try delegating these to a VA:

✅ Email Management – Let a VA sort, flag, and respond to routine emails.
✅ Scheduling & Admin – No more calendar chaos — your VA keeps you on track.
✅ Social Media & Research – Content planning, engagement, and competitor research made easy.

Ready to lighten your workload? Learn from more real-world inspiring stories:

THURSDAY’S STEAL

Master Salary Talks: With this Negotiation Guide

Most people dodge the discussion altogether simply because they don’t know how to ask. The good news? Negotiation is a skill — and you can easily learn it with this Salary Negotiation Guide.

What you’ll learn:

🔹 The exact words to use in salary talks
🔹 When to ask (timing is everything)
🔹 How to handle counteroffers with confidence
🔹 The #1 mistake you’ve likely made already

The secret to a bigger paycheck isn’t working harder — it’s negotiating smarter.

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CAREER GROWTH

How to Improve Your Time Management Skills in 15 Steps

It’s common to find yourself snowed in under piling workloads, with no visible light at the end of the tunnel. This is where effective time management skills come into play, which is why we’ve created this list of tips and time management techniques to help you work more productively and efficiently. As the age-old saying goes, you should work smarter, not harder.

WORK TREND

Silent Firing Surges in 2025: A Growing Workplace Concern

International Accounting Bulletin — Employers are quietly pushing workers out, cutting responsibilities, limiting promotions, and creating a toxic environment — without officially laying them go. Read up on how to spot and handle it.

NEWS THAT MATTERS

🛑 'Soft Retirement': Latest TikTok Career Trend — More pros are phasing out work slowly instead of retiring overnight. [Her Campus]

🚀 Crypto Firms' Hiring Surges in 2024 — Blockchain companies are ramping up hiring amid renewed market growth. [Coinfomania]

🏠 Work-from-Home Trends Vary by Earnings — Higher earners have more remote work flexibility but others aren't so lucky. [Bain & Company]

🎭 'Task Masking': Making RTO Appear Busier — Employees are faking productivity to meet office expectations. [WorkLife]

WEEKLY GOODY

A Productivity Planner to Track Your To-Dos

Got a lot to do, but not sure where to even begin? With our complimentary Productivity Planner, you can plan your days and weeks ahead, keep track of your time and output, and hit your daily and weekly goals like the productivity royalty we know you are. It’s on the house!

BREAKROOM

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