“As our team needs more support, Upwork is a critical resource, whether we onboard talent from our own networks or find skilled professionals on the platform.”
“Upwork lets me reach people who are experts in their field, from any place in the world.”
“We’ve been able to bring in folks who are experts in things that our company has never done before, so we can learn and make fewer mistakes."
“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.”
"The Upwork platform is really intuitive we’ve found success across the board.”
“Using Upwork is a matter of effectiveness and efficiency. It’s all about being smarter on how we manage our time.”
“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.”
“We can hire engineers who code in different languages than we write internally. Our Pro is one of the best hires we've made.”
“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."
“I love the platform and the amount of talent I have access to. We really couldn’t be this far along without help from the talent on Upwork.”
“Upwork has allowed me to build a great distributed team and run a SaaS platform successfully.”
“The cost savings are great, but the real value [of flexible talent] is getting distributed expertise.”
“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.”
“Upwork is great for crowdsourcing ideas without letting budgets get out of hand, especially when you don’t know where to start, you want to try something new, or you want to get fresh ideas to take something to the next level.”