From supporting NASA missions to building marketing campaigns, employers worldwide are tapping freelancers to bolster their businesses. But this new zest for ad hoc work means firms are facing steep competition when it comes to nabbing talent. In the Digital Payments In A Digital World...
Firms quickly adopted solutions to operate remotely in the wake of the pandemic, and the global health crisis also appears to have changed the ways many of these companies find new talent. More companies are turning to freelancers or independent contractors to complete projects, for...
A good electrical engineer can be hard to find, which can serve as a massive friction for any firm that needs one. And as Freelancer.com CEO and Chairman Matt Barrie told Karen Webster, it really can be almost any firm that needs that kind of expert help....
Onboarding employers and freelancers worldwide onto gig marketplaces, swiftly and safely, is complicated stuff — but platform user bases can help, Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie tells PYMNTS. In this month’s Digital Consumer Onboarding Tracker, Barrie explains how review systems and fraud-reporting channels help the platform...
December 21, 2020
Firms quickly adopted solutions to operate remotely in the wake of the pandemic, and the global health crisis also appears to have changed the ways many of these companies find new talent. More companies are turning to freelancers or independent contractors to complete projects, for example, and professionals are taking on ad hoc work more […]
April 22, 2019
A good electrical engineer can be hard to find, which can serve as a massive friction for any firm that needs one. And as Freelancer.com CEO and Chairman Matt Barrie told Karen...
March 28, 2019
As major rideshare companies compete for even greater shares of the market, they’re placing a heavy focus on fine-tuning onboarding processes. Making it easy for both drivers and riders to...
July 28, 2024
Website publishers are accusing artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic of “aggressively” scraping data from their sites. Such actions could violate publishers’ terms of services, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (July 26), citing interviews with those website owners. Data scraping is the automated process of pulling information from websites or other digital sources, often without […]
April 20, 2015
In a world where it seems every service is attempting to cash into the local services market – Amazon and Google most notably – an online marketplace for freelance workers...
