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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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."

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

“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 …

“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.”

“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 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.”

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