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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Upwork enables us to differentiate ourselves from our competitors and produce content at a higher caliber.”

"Program consultants really allowed me to get out of just putting out fires to taking the time to really strategize."

“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.”

“Upwork is a great forum to trial talent at no risk and with great speed. Having the flexibility to invite someone to a job and get a response within minutes or hours is really important.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”