We take the admin, you make the decisions
Inbox and calendar ownership, research and briefing, sales support and bookkeeping as a founder meets them today, and why a dedicated team in the Philippines is the practical answer. Every figure links to the organisation that published it.
How the work runs today
Inbox and calendar ownership, research and briefing, sales support and bookkeeping, as a founder or chief executive meets them today. Every figure links to the organisation that published it.
The working day now runs past eight
People receive 117 emails and 153 chat messages a day, which works out at an interruption about every two minutes across a working day. Meetings after eight in the evening rose sixteen per cent year on year, forty per cent of people open the inbox by six in the morning, and fifty-seven per cent of meetings arrive with no calendar invite.
Message volume, interruption frequency and evening meetings: Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025
The role asks for experience first
Eighty-seven per cent of executive assistant roles require prior work experience, and the occupation still opens 314,400 positions a year in the United States as people move on. Fifty-four per cent of hiring managers find skilled administrative people harder to find than a year ago, and half report projects that moved slowly for want of that capacity.
Experience requirement, annual openings and hiring difficulty: US Bureau of Labor Statistics and Robert Half, 2025 to 2026
A seat in the United States lists near eighty thousand
The median wage for an executive secretary or executive administrative assistant reached $76,590, and Robert Half puts the executive assistant midpoint at $70,250 with a high of $86,750. Those numbers set the comparison any founder makes when a dedicated offshore seat comes up.
Median wage and 2026 salary guide midpoints: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025, and Robert Half, 2026
Sales teams sell two days in five
Forty per cent of a sales week goes to selling and sixty per cent goes to everything around it, with seventeen per cent spent entering data by hand. That seventeen per cent is the clearest single block of work a trained support person absorbs in week one.
Share of a sales week spent selling and on manual entry, 4,050 professionals: Salesforce State of Sales, 2026
Why offshore hiring is the practical answer here
Four reasons a dedicated team in the Philippines fits this work, drawn from the same published sources as the figures above.
- 01
A seat in the United States lists near eighty thousand dollars
The median wage for an executive secretary or executive administrative assistant reached $76,590, and Robert Half puts the executive assistant midpoint at $70,250 with a high of $86,750. A dedicated Philippine seat gives a founder the same coverage at a cost that holds steady, agreed before anyone is hired.
- 02
Experience is what the role asks for, and what is scarce
Eighty-seven per cent of these roles require prior experience, fifty-four per cent of hiring managers find skilled administrative people harder to find than a year ago, and half report projects that moved slowly for want of that capacity. We hire from a pool where that experience is plentiful.
- 03
The load is measurable, and it is growing
People receive 117 emails and 153 chat messages a day, which is an interruption about every two minutes. Meetings after eight in the evening rose sixteen per cent year on year. Handing the coordination to somebody whose whole job it is gives those hours back to the work only you can do.
- 04
Artificial intelligence moved about 2.2 per cent of the week
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis measures the time generative AI actually gives back, and it is small. Drafting got cheap. Judgement, chasing, coordinating and following through still need a person, which is precisely what a dedicated assistant brings.
How we staff it
A dedicated team built around one operation, trained on your own steps, with one named account lead who answers for the result.
- Executive assistanceInbox ownership, calendar management, travel, and the follow-through after meetings.
- Research and briefingDecision briefs, market and account research, and reading prepared before you need it.
- Sales supportCRM hygiene, proposal preparation, pipeline reporting and meeting coordination.
- BookkeepingReconciliations, accounts payable and receivable, expenses and month-end preparation.
Malasakit runs this engagement
Assess, design the solution, implement. Three stages, and the same idea underneath all three, because caring for your problem the way we care for our own is what makes the assessment honest and the design yours.
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Tell us what the operation looks like
A 60-minute discovery call maps the work, the volumes and the service levels, and you leave with a written scope that stays yours either way.