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In 2015, the new company was rebranded as Upwork, which coincided with an upgrade of the oDesk platform under the same name. The newly named Upwork also planned to phase out the Elance platform within a couple of years. [11] The company was listed on the Inc. 5000 list from 2009 to 2014 and filed for an initial public offering on October 3, 2018.
The Congressional Research Service defines the "gig economy" as: the collection of markets that match providers to consumers on a gig (or job) basis in support of on-demand commerce. In the basic model, gig workers enter into formal agreements with on-demand companies to provide services to company's clients.
Upwork Inc. (NASDAQ:UPWK) shares are trading higher on Thursday. The company’s total revenue increased 4% year-over-year. Active clients totaled 832,000 at quarter’s end. Gross services volume ...
centers on a character creating a song for the service. [85] The Simpsons episode "Dad Behavior" parodies the service as ChoreMonkey. [86] The iCarly episode "iGot Your Back" parodies the service as PostRabbit. [87] [88] In Single All The Way, the main character Nick subsidizes his career as a writer by working as a handyman for Taskrabbit. [89]
In the UK and most of Europe, many women find digital labor employment through remote crowd-work platforms (also known as part of the "Gig-economy") like Upwork, TaskRabbit, etc. [20] The switch from the traditional labor market to platform labor has not extinguished the gender bias in traditional employment but rather bought new sets of ...
Additional products include Crucible, FishEye, Bamboo, and Clover, which target programmers working with a code base. FishEye, Crucible, and Clover came into Atlassian's portfolio by acquiring another Australian software company, Cenqua, in 2007. [55] In 2010, Atlassian acquired Bitbucket, a hosted service for code collaboration. [56]
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Complement and/or replace human customer service specialists [31] in domains like healthcare, sales, and banking. One report estimated that an automated online assistant produced a 30% decrease in the work-load for a human-provided call centre .