Return to work mandates continue to give employers headaches.
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mandates → return → headaches
A recent study by Baylor University shows that RTO policies significantly increase employee turnover by 14%.
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policies → show → %
Because replacing a skilled worker can cost up to nine months of their salary, companies are bleeding millions in replacement costs while losing talent.
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companies → replace → talent
As the labor market remains tight and office overhead continues to soar, growing businesses are turning to a solution that bypasses the domestic RTO friction entirely.
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that → remain → friction
Since 2020, Remote Raven, a U.S.-based offshore staffing company, has been helping companies sidestep the battle by hiring vetted, college-educated virtual assistants for as little as $10 an hour.
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companies → help → 10
“Business owners are exhausted watching their competitors fight employees over office attendance instead of focusing on growth,” says Randall Averitte, CEO and Founder of Remote Raven.
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Averitte → exhaust → Raven
“We’re seeing companies realize they don’t need to win that argument at all.
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They can hire skilled, vetted talent remotely and skip the office war completely.”
Small to mid-sized businesses are already catching on to the legal and financial benefits of full-time remote workers.
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businesses → hire → workers
Affiliated Dermatology, a recent Remote Raven client, brought on 12 remote virtual assistants rather than expanding its in-office footprint.
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Dermatology → bring → footprint
It is a model that a growing number of owners are treating as an operational hedge against both rising commercial real estate costs and the unpredictable domestic U.S. labor market by connecting businesses with qualified global professionals from the Philippines, Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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number → grow → Philippines
However, their model breaks sharply from the traditional staffing agency playbook.
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model → break → playbook
Rather than pulling from a stagnant, pre-screened candidate pool, Remote Raven runs a personalized, bespoke vetting process for every client.
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Raven → pull → client
Using structured, multi-stage interviews and AI-assisted matching, they rigorously assess a candidate’s skills, personality fit and cultural compatibility before presenting them to a business client.
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they → use → client
Remote Raven’s staffers are college-educated professionals who are fully fluent in American English.
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who → educate → English
Before placement, they undergo targeted professional development and soft skills training to ensure they can seamlessly integrate into U.S. business cultures.
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Every placement is full-time and permanent, which completely avoids the unreliability of short-term freelance contracts.
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which → avoid → contracts
Remote Raven makes adoption by small and mid-sized businesses easy by requiring no startup fees, and most roles are filled in just 15 business days.
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roles → make → days
Remote Raven then provides ongoing performance management to ensure the working relationship thrives long after the initial hire is made.
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With over 10,000 projects completed since its founding, Remote Raven has deployed its skilled and dependable workers in highly regulated and complex sectors, including healthcare, legal, real estate, construction and accounting.
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Raven → complete → healthcare
To support these sensitive industries, Remote Raven operates as a full-suite managed IT service provider.
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Raven → support → provider
Every placement is backed by in-house IT support, 24/7 monitoring and a dedicated help desk.
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placement → back → support
Their cybersecurity infrastructure includes dark web monitoring, endpoint security, secure cloud workstations, VoIP business phone systems and enterprise-grade password management.
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infrastructure → include → monitoring
Trust and security are built into the foundation of the company, which holds HIPAA compliance, SOC 2 certification and NMSDC certification, alongside membership in the prestigious Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).
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which → build → Organization
Remote Raven’s core mission is to give business owners their time back.
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mission → give → time
But the impact of the company extends far beyond the bottom line of its U.S. clients.
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impact → extend → clients
For Averitte, the company is built just as much around global impact as it is around staffing efficiency.
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“What gets me up in the morning is the lives we’re changing,” Averitte explains.
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Averitte → get → morning
“We are affecting lives literally all over the world.”
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Today’s traditional office is a battleground of competing priorities; Remote Raven offers a refreshing alternative.
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Raven → compete → alternative
By embracing dedicated, supported and highly skilled global talent, businesses can stop fighting over where work happens and get back to focusing on the work itself.
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work → embrace → work
For over 200 years, the New York Post has been America’s go-to source for bold news, engaging stories, in-depth reporting, and now, insightful shopping guidance.
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Post → go → news
We’re not just thorough reporters – we sift through mountains of information, test and compare products, and consult experts on any topics we aren’t already schooled specialists in to deliver useful, realistic product recommendations based on our extensive and hands-on analysis.
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we → ’re → analysis
Here at The Post, we’re known for being brutally honest – we clearly label partnership content, and whether we receive anything from affiliate links, so you always know where we stand.
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we → know → links
We routinely update content to reflect current research and expert advice, provide context (and wit) and ensure our links work.
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links → update → context
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