"[Upwork] enables us to have multiple freelancers with different expertise helping us in different locations at any time we need."
“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.”
“Upwork enables us to differentiate ourselves from our competitors and produce content at a higher caliber.”
“Nearly every department in the company has at least one or two freelancers found on Upwork.”
“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.”
"Upwork gives us the ability to scale work quickly and in a big way in response to changing business demand."
“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 with professionals like [Dr. Kami Anderson] on a part-time basis, we would not have been able to launch. Period.”
“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.”
“Upwork has allowed me to build a great distributed team and run a SaaS platform successfully.”
"Program consultants really allowed me to get out of just putting out fires to taking the time to really strategize."
“From day one, freelancers were our blueprint for success. This was our master plan.”
“Even if [flexible talent] is not the content expert on a course, nearly every course has been touched by one.”
“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."