“Now, we have a partner that understands us and our brand and they can scale to support us because they have the experience and expertise."

“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.”

“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 attribute our success building and scaling our startup to Upwork. It’s how we recruit new people, manage payments and track deadlines.”

“If we weren’t able to turn around talent requests at the quantity, quality, and velocity that we can because of our relationship with Upwork, I think the talent acquisition function would quite quickly be overloaded.”

“Using Upwork is a matter of effectiveness and efficiency. It’s all about being smarter on how we manage our time.”

“Through Upwork, I got access to high-caliber talent on terms that fit. I dreamed of being an entrepreneur but, like most female founders, I’m also self-funded; I don’t come from a wealthy family, I have a mortgage, I have an elderly parent I care for. Without the opportunity to work …

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

“Upwork lets me reach people who are experts in their field, from any place in the world.”

“Upwork is the best platform to hire skilled professionals when we're not looking for a full-time employee. All the companies in our portfolio use Upwork to find talent across a wide range of fields.”

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

“Working on Upwork made it easy for me to find great talent to create a new industry web and mobile app.”

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

“It’s so important to be able to find the people and skills we need, when we need them—and Upwork helps us do that.”

“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.”