HerWorkCircle vs OnlineJobs.ph: one hire, or a managed team?
Choose OnlineJobs.ph to hire one Filipino worker directly, manage them yourself and pay them yourself, after a paid plan lets you contact applicants. Choose HerWorkCircle for repeat, rule-based work handed to a managed team in India that checks every piece and prices the work up front, with more shared hours with UK and European mornings.
Which fits you
Choose OnlineJobs.ph if
- You want to hire one named person and build a long working relationship with them.
- You want a Filipino virtual assistant, whose English and customer-service experience suit your work.
- You are comfortable managing, paying and reviewing a worker yourself.
- You want to keep your costs to a worker's pay and a subscription, with no fee on their earnings.
Choose HerWorkCircle if
- The work repeats every week and follows rules you can write down.
- You want a team that covers absences, instead of depending on one person.
- You want every piece checked before it reaches you, and one person to talk to.
- You work in UK or European hours and want more of your morning to overlap with the team.
Side by side
| What | OnlineJobs.ph | HerWorkCircle |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Access to a job board and a database of Filipino worker profiles; you hire directly | A managed team for ongoing work, priced per piece or per hour |
| Finding people | Post a job or search profiles; on the free plan you can't see applicants' contact details or message them | After a free 20-minute call, we match skill-checked women to your work |
| Cost of the platform | Free to post; paid Pro and Premium plans to contact applicants (prices are on its pricing page) | No platform fee; one price agreed before work starts |
| Fee on worker pay | None: it says it takes no cut of what you pay workers | None: one price for the work, agreed up front |
| Paying the worker | You pay directly, for example by Wise, Payoneer, PayPal or bank transfer; its free EasyPay tool helps track payments | You pay us, not each person, on the price agreed |
| What is checked | ID Proof estimates whether a profile belongs to a real person; it does not measure skill or work quality | Skill check for the kind of work, then our team checks every piece before you see it |
| Managing the work | You interview, onboard, manage and review the worker | One person on our side who knows your work |
| When someone is away | The work waits, or you find someone else | Work is shared across the team, so the deadline holds |
| Where the worker is | The Philippines, UTC+8 all year | India, UTC+5:30 all year |
| Shared hours with London | 1 hour in winter, 2 in summer | 3.5 hours in winter, 4.5 in summer |
| Refunds | Money back on the latest subscription payment within 31 days, once per customer | Not applicable: no subscription; we redo work free if it isn't right |
A quick check on your own work
Answer what fits your work. Each question has one answer that suits hiring directly on OnlineJobs.ph and one that suits a managed team, so the result can go either way.
Which fits your work?
Answer at least 4 questions. Your result appears here, and changes as you go.
How to read this
- A managed team is likely the better fit: Repeat, rule-based work is what we do. Start with a small trial batch at a price agreed up front.
- OnlineJobs.ph is likely the better fit: For a personal assistant or one long-term role that you want to shape yourself, a direct hire gives you the closest working relationship.
- Try both on one small task: Run the same small task both ways and compare the result, your management time and the total cost.
A side is called when it leads by two or more answers. Each question has one answer that fits each option.
How OnlineJobs.ph works for employers
OnlineJobs.ph describes itself as a marketplace for Filipino remote talent where you hire directly, not a staffing agency. Its own hiring guide calls it a job board.
- You post a job or search worker profiles. The free plan lets you post and see applications, but not contact details or messaging. Paid Pro and Premium plans open those up.
- You contact, interview and hire people yourself, by email or any channel you like.
- OnlineJobs.ph does not process the payment. You pay the worker directly, and it offers EasyPay and TimeProof as free tools for tracking payments and time.
- It says it takes no fees or cut from what you pay workers.
- There are no contracts with the site: you can cancel a subscription any time, and it offers your money back on the latest payment within 31 days.
- ID Proof gives each profile a trust score. OnlineJobs.ph says it estimates whether the profile belongs to a real person, that it is not perfect, and that it does not measure skill, experience or quality of work.
Its own advice is to pay for work after it is done and never to pre-pay. It does not describe any escrow or payment protection.
What a direct hire costs
OnlineJobs.ph publishes pay guidance on its blog. Its cost-of-hiring guide (undated) lists these ranges for Filipino remote workers:
| Level | Per hour | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $3 to $5 | $400 to $600 |
| Mid level | $6 to $10 | $700 to $1,000 |
| Expert | $10 to $25 | $1,200 to $2,500 |
Its salary guide suggests $4 to $7 an hour as a starting offer. Older guides on the same blog date from 2019 and 2021, so check the current rates before you budget.
A subscription for contacting applicants comes on top. OnlineJobs.ph's pricing page notes it once held an earlier price for eight years before raising it, so read its pricing page for the current plans.
The cost that doesn't show in a rate is your time: writing the job post, screening, interviewing, training, managing, reviewing the work and finding a replacement when someone leaves. It also says employers negotiate terms directly, and it describes 13th-month pay as not required for contractors, though many employers give it. Whether a direct hire counts as an employee under Philippine law is a question for a local adviser.
We don't publish a rate card, because the price depends on the task and the volume. On the first call you get a clear price for a trial batch, per piece or per hour, and a clear price again before anything bigger starts. There is no subscription and no separate fee.
Time zones: Manila and India
The Philippines is UTC+8 and India is UTC+5:30, and neither changes its clocks. Manila is two and a half hours ahead of India all year. For a European team, that costs shared hours. This is our own calculation, for a worker's 9:00 to 18:00 day against your 9:00 to 17:00 day:
| Your city | Philippines, winter / summer | India, winter / summer |
|---|---|---|
| London | 1 hour / 2 hours | 3.5 hours / 4.5 hours |
| Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam | 2 hours / 3 hours | 4.5 hours / 5.5 hours |
| New York | None / none | None / none |
A Filipino worker can shift hours to meet yours. That is often a good agreement for one person, and harder to ask of a whole team. Our time-zone guide has an interactive chart for any European city.
Where OnlineJobs.ph is the better choice
- A personal assistant. Filipino virtual assistants are a well-established choice, and hiring one person directly gives you a close working relationship.
- Control. You choose the person, shape the role and manage the day yourself.
- Long-term single roles, such as an ongoing executive or administrative assistant.
- Cost structure. There is no fee on worker pay, so what you pay the person is what they receive.
- Scale of the talent pool. It reports millions of worker profiles and hundreds of thousands of businesses, figures it states about itself.
Where HerWorkCircle fits better
- Repeat work with clear rules: checking and cleaning data, product catalogs, reviewing chatbot and AI answers, data labelling, research and lists, written support, bookkeeping entries.
- No hiring round: no job post, screening or interviews. You describe the work once.
- A second look: every piece is checked by our team before you see it.
- Continuity: you hire a team, so work continues when one person is away.
- More shared hours with UK and European mornings.
- Fair work: the women doing it passed our skill check for that kind of work, work the hours they chose, and are paid fairly and on time.
Trying us alongside a direct hire
You don't have to choose. Keep the assistant you trust for the tasks that suit one person, and hand the repeat batch work to a team.
- Pick the task that repeats, and write it down: a sample of the input, a finished example, and a few good and bad results. Our brief builder helps.
- Book a free 20-minute call and agree the price of a small trial batch.
- Compare the trial with what your direct hire produces: the pieces you had to fix, your management time and the total cost.
- Keep whichever works better for each task.
Questions
What is a good OnlineJobs.ph alternative for ongoing work?
For repeat, rule-based work such as data checking, catalogs or reviewing AI answers, a managed team like HerWorkCircle removes the hiring and management work and checks every piece before delivery. For a personal assistant you want to work with closely, hiring directly on OnlineJobs.ph is usually the better fit.
Does OnlineJobs.ph take a cut of what I pay workers?
No. It says it takes no fees or cut of what you pay workers. Employers pay workers directly, and it charges employers a subscription for contacting applicants.
Does OnlineJobs.ph check workers' skills?
Its ID Proof score estimates whether a profile belongs to a real person. OnlineJobs.ph says it does not measure skill, experience or quality of work, so you assess skills yourself.
How many hours does a Filipino worker share with a UK team?
With a 9:00 to 18:00 day in the Philippines and a 9:00 to 17:00 day in London, one hour in winter and two in summer. A worker can shift their hours to meet yours.
Is India or the Philippines better for a European team?
India shares more of a European morning: 3.5 to 4.5 hours with London against 1 to 2 for the Philippines, and 4.5 to 5.5 hours with Central Europe against 2 to 3. The right choice also depends on the kind of work and who checks it.
Does HerWorkCircle charge a subscription?
No. You get one price for a trial batch on the first call, per piece or per hour, and a clear price before anything bigger starts.
Sources
- How it works for employers (job board, direct hiring, tools) OnlineJobs.ph
- Home page (no fees or salary markups, self-reported scale) OnlineJobs.ph
- Pricing (free plan, paid plans, cancellation, money back) OnlineJobs.ph
- ID Proof: what the trust score does and doesn't measure OnlineJobs.ph
- EasyPay: paying workers directly OnlineJobs.ph
- All about paying Filipino VAs (payment methods, no pre-payment, 13th-month pay) OnlineJobs.ph blog
- Cost of hiring remote workers OnlineJobs.ph blog
- Filipino virtual assistants salary guide OnlineJobs.ph blog
- Terms of service (refunds, accounts, cancellation) OnlineJobs.ph
- Time in the Philippines and India timeanddate.com
OnlineJobs.ph is a trademark of its owner. HerWorkCircle is not affiliated with OnlineJobs.ph. Details about OnlineJobs.ph come from its public pages on the dates shown; check them before you decide.