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Outsource your life

Now someone else can look after all the boring details, says linton chiswick
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The online concierge service has become something of a growth internet industry. The theory is simple. We're cash-rich and time-starved. We're also almost permanently online. Handing chunks of to-do list grunt work - from booking holidays to ordering underpants - to somebody else, a few mouse clicks away, makes perfect sense. And while online concierges stand by to give some order to your domestic life, a comparable number of virtual personal assistants are taking advantage of a culture of increased remote working by providing by-the-hour research
 

and secretarial support.

Now, evolution has combined the two - in Bangalore. Western businesses were already outsourcing their web development to teams in India's Silicon Valley, so why not leverage the talent (and low costs) and use technology to send their personal chores offshore, too?
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GetFriday - currently the internet's buzziest life- outsourcing success story - is a Bangalore-based company providing eclectic personal assistance. Your GetFriday personal assistant (a point of contact, whom you'll know by first name) will wake you up with a morning call, then book

 

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