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

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

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

“If you have very specific requirements, you can find the right person 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.”

“Upwork evaluates the work description, the talent, and does the worker classification for us so we don’t have to worry about it—that was a really great feature in terms of getting legal buy-in.”

“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.”

“Independent talent changed how we handle development. They gave us the confidence to test new ideas and opened our minds to what’s possible.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I attribute our success building and scaling our startup to Upwork. It’s how we recruit new people, manage payments and track deadlines.”

“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.”