“Independent talent changed how we handle development. They gave us the confidence to test new ideas and opened our minds to what’s possible.”

“We can go to Upwork for exactly what we need, no matter what the scope requires. It has changed the way we get work done every day.”

“Having high-quality talent available lets me focus on high-visibility projects while knowing the other projects are getting done and their stakeholders are receiving the support they need.”

“I’m not aware of any other platform that’s as customizable as Upwork.”

“Our experience with the freelance economy and Upwork has given us the basis for continual production in the future and even larger scaling of our team and department within Microsoft.”

“One of the biggest advantages of utilizing freelancers is finding a great variety of talent with different skills. And bringing on new talent quickly as our needs change."

“If we have any issue, my first thought is to go to Upwork and find talent who can help us think it through Upwork opened the door, and made it possible.”

“Nearly every department in the company has at least one or two freelancers found on Upwork.”

“Upwork evaluates the work description, the talent, and does the worker classification for us so we don’t have to worry about it—that was a really great feature in terms of getting legal buy-in.”

“From day one, freelancers were our blueprint for success. This was our master plan.”

“Upwork has allowed me to build a great distributed team and run a SaaS platform successfully.”

"The Upwork platform is really intuitive we’ve found success across the board.”

“The cost savings are great, but the real value [of flexible talent] is getting distributed expertise.”

“Upwork really helps our marketing team find new talent, run experiments and see if things are going to work a lot faster than we could otherwise."

“We can hire engineers who code in different languages than we write internally. Our Pro is one of the best hires we've made.”