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[1] 70 percent of freelancers from India reported working exclusively as freelancers, with 48 percent of them dedicating 30 hours or less per week to their work. [2] In a report of (National Institution for Transforming India) NITI Aayog has estimated that India’s gig workforce or Freelancing will grow to 2.35 crore by 2029-30. In 2020-21, it ...
Freelancing is also taken up by workers who have been laid-off, who cannot find full-time employment, [4] or for those industries such as journalism which are relying increasingly on contingent labor rather than full-time staff. [20] Freelancers also consist of students trying to make ends meet during the semester.
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Freelancer has acquired several crowdsourcing marketplaces including Get A Freelancer.com and EUFreelance.com (founded by Magnus Tibell in 2004, Sweden), [4] Scriptlance.com (founded by Rene Trescases in 2001, Canada) [5] - one of the early pioneers in freelancing, Freelancer.de Booking Center (Germany), Freelancer.co.uk (United Kingdom), [6] Webmaster-talk.com (USA), a forum for webmasters ...
Upwork Global Inc., formerly Elance-oDesk, is an American freelancing platform headquartered in Santa Clara and San Francisco, California. [2] The company was formed in 2013 as Elance-oDesk after the merger of Elance Inc. and oDesk Corp.
India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the act came into force on 1 April 2010. [2] [3] [4] The title of the RTE Act incorporates the words "free and compulsory". "Free education" means that no child, other than a child who has been admitted by his or her parents to a school which is not ...
Swecha, an organisation floated to promote free software movement in India, has organised a one-day workshop on free software in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Andhra University College of Engineering, the students who attended the workshop along with the faculty members joined to formally launch the GNU/Linux User ...
Guru Inc. was founded in 1998 [2] in San Francisco as an online clearing house for high tech workers seeking short-term contracts. The company, led by brothers Jon and James Slavet, raised $3M USD in angel funding and a further $16M USD in a full venture round led by Greylock Partners and August Capital. [2]