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Upwork Expands to Support Full-Time Hiring, Further Unlocking the World’s Work Marketplace for All
New end-to-end hiring solution enables businesses to find, vet, hire and pay global talent for full-time work, with tools to address complexity and risk SAN
About this update from Upwork Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"New end-to-end hiring solution enables businesses to find, vet, hire and pay global talent for full-time work, with tools to address complexity and risk\nSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace, today announced a major expansion of its offerings, making full-time hiring available to all customers for the first time. A new end-to-end solution enables businesses of all sizes to find, vet, hire, onboard and pay highly skilled professionals for full-time work arrangements, without the complexity commonly associated with global hiring. Businesses pay a price when they make a bad full-time hire, and professionals are often asked to commit to working full-time for a company they aren’t already comfortable with – real risks on both sides magnified by current economic uncertainty. Upwork’s proven track record of helping businesses and talent from over 180 countries and across more than 10,000 skills forge trusted, long-term relationships in a freelance capacity can now be applied to full-time work arrangements as well. Several new product features and enhanced capabilities allow clients to quickly and easily discover, evaluate, hire and work with a vast global pool of more than 2 million highly skilled professionals on Upwork who have already indicated openness to full-time work, all within a centralized platform. “Today, hiring full-time talent around the globe is an expensive proposition and a leap of faith for everyone involved,” said Dave Bottoms, General Manager of Marketplace, Upwork. “With this expansion into a full-time hiring solution for all our customers, we have mobilized Upwork’s longstanding expertise, experience and technology to further help businesses and skilled professionals build trusted, long-term working relationships. We aim to provide customers the flexibility to choose the work arrangements that best fit their needs, and empower people on both sides of our work marketplace to thrive in today’s ever-changing world of work.” Highlights of Upwork’s new end-to-end solution for full-time hiring include: A mutually beneficial way for all clients and talent to trial a contract-to-hire working relationship before they commit to a long-term, full-time engagement. In fact, since the beginning of 2023, clients testing this feature have posted over 40,000 contract-...