Many companies decide to work with staffing agencies and hire temporaries for their short term projects and office overflow work.  There are advantages now to hiring a Virtual Assistant or VA instead.  Just a few of them include:

~  With a temporary you are not guaranteed the same person and likely have to spend time training different individuals over and over.

~  With a VA you get familiarity of operations, consistency of quality, continuity of expectations, and more productivity. 

~  With a VA there's no staffing agency fees and coordination with a third party.  Companies can work directly with a VA to schedule and negotiate services to meet their business needs.