“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.”
“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."
“When employees aren’t limited by internal skillsets and resources, they can leverage their time to create bigger improvements and change that help the team overall.”
"Program consultants really allowed me to get out of just putting out fires to taking the time to really strategize."
“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.”
"Upwork gives us the ability to scale work quickly and in a big way in response to changing business demand."
“If you have very specific requirements, you can find the right person on Upwork.”
"A lot of universities aren't really innovating. They're kind of just doing what they've always done. So for us, Upwork is a flexible platform that allows us to innovate and do more."
“I’m not aware of any other platform that’s as customizable as Upwork.”
“Nearly every department in the company has at least one or two freelancers found on Upwork.”
“I attribute our success building and scaling our startup to Upwork. It’s how we recruit new people, manage payments and track deadlines.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The cost savings are great, but the real value [of flexible talent] is getting distributed expertise.”