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53% of businesses have used more remote freelancers says new report
Sep 29, 2021
Upwork released a new research report, the “ Future Workforce Pulse Report ,” examining how businesses are approaching hiring. Utilizing survey data from over 1,000 U.S. hiring managers, the report finds that the use of remote freelancing has dramatically increased as a result of the pandemic, and will continue to rise in the future. The change to fully remote workforces has led to changes across organizations, far beyond...
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Companies Still Struggle to Source and Pay Freelance Talent
Jun 25, 2021
New research from Stoke provides insight into how companies are leveraging freelance workers, the challenges faced, and their rising eagerness to harness the flexibility and value of freelancers – uncovering a major gap in preparedness when it comes to managing freelancers at scale. There has been a seismic shift in the way people work.   Nearly one in three Americans are freelancing today, and more than 90 million...
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Report: employers looking to shift more roles to flexible work arrangements
May 18, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transition away from traditional workforce models, and 56 percent of companies are expecting to shift more of their roles to contingent, project or contract work as a result, according to a new report released by Randstad Sourceright. Randstad Sourceright's 2021 Talent Trends research, based on responses from 850 C-suite and talent leaders across 17 markets globally, found that the pandemic...
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Cool Tools for Freelancers: KeeperTax
Apr 29, 2021
Keeper Tax, a tax filing software for gig workers, creators and freelancers, just raised its $13M in venture capital funding. The funding will help Keeper Tax — which helps anybody making 1099 income discover tax write-offs among everyday purchases — build out a complete tax platform, offering full service tax advice, expense, and an intuitive filing solution. The new capital will allow the company to...
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Report: Global Freelancing is Surging
Sep 24, 2020
A new report by digital payment platform Payoneer says that freelancers are experiencing a huge surge in demand. The report, titled,  Freelancing in 2020: An Abundance of Opportunities Report  confirms the outlook of a resilient workforce that maintained its optimism even through the immediate slump that occurred at the beginning of the pandemic. "While the global economy has slowed elsewhere, skilled workers are...
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