Rewriting the Rules of Work with Upwork Enterprise Suite

Business leaders are rewriting the rules of work—reimagining what the workforce looks like, where work gets done, and how an innovative approach can enhance business continuity and growth.

With Enterprise Suite, Upwork is working alongside innovative, growth-minded industry leaders as they leverage a global talent pool to scale with confidence, ease, and speed.

To help you develop and support new approaches to get work done, with more flexibility and less friction, Enterprise Suite has introduced powerful new customization and automation tools. The result is a more powerful, trust-driven platform that can enable your organization to work the way you want. Let’s look at how your team can take advantage of these new features.

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“There were a lot of things we had questions about, be it compliance to cybersecurity… Upwork’s enterprise team had done this so many times with other organizations that it made it really simple and efficient on our end.”
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—Moadh Bukhash, Chief Marketing Officer, Emirates NBD

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Related: How one of Dubai’s largest banks is driving innovation through global talent

It starts with a fresh, new look

Your Upwork account has a new appearance—the same layout with bolder colors and greater contrast for improved accessibility. Keep an eye out for future updates as we continue our work to improve your experience.  

Enhanced talent search capabilities help you connect with the best

We’ve enhanced our search functionality to help you find the top talent you need, when you need it, as smoothly as possible.

Get stronger talent matches

Connect with the skills and experience you’re looking for with a more refined search of Upwork’s global talent pool:

• From artificial intelligence (AI) to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to virtual sales, find professionals with emerging and niche expertise more easily
• Identify more specific and informative terms for your talent search with help from autosuggest
• Discover talent that’s more closely aligned with your needs

Enterprise users also can filter search results for Expert-Vetted Talent—a shortcut to look beyond skillset to include experience and soft skills.

Expert-vetted professionals are an elite group, representing the top 1% of talent within the most in-demand categories on Upwork. They have been pre-screened by Upwork Talent Managers for both their technical and soft skills.

See who’s available now

Look for Availability badges to find talent faster and efficiently get your most important projects off the ground. Motivated professionals stand out by signaling on their profiles when they’re ready, willing, and able to contribute to your organization.

Tools to manage and scale your workforce

High-performing teams need more than access to the right talent. That’s why we’re enhancing your flexibility to help get the right people onto the right projects while keeping risk and spending under control.

Set up new approval options

New multi-approver workflows enable multiple authorized users to sign off on offers before they’re sent to freelance professionals.

Define approval criteria to ensure company policies are being met, set departmental requirements, and help control risk. With team-based approvals, administrators can configure settings differently for each team within a company account.

This feature also enables sequential and simultaneous approvals, as well as better visibility into requests through the approvals dashboard.

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Payroll made painless

Need more support to manage and pay a dispersed workforce? Upwork Payroll makes it easy to augment your teams with professionals from all 50 states and more than 150 countries, by leveraging a trusted third-party employer of record (EOR). The professional will be employed by the EOR while working on your project.

With Upwork Payroll you can:

• Comply with individual state and country employment laws

• Reduce the risk of legal disputes related to worker classification

• Receive guidance and support from your dedicated Upwork Product and Services team

Simplify administration with Bring Your Own Talent

Bring Your Own Talent provides access to Upwork’s suite of work management and payment tools to support working relationships developed outside of the Upwork platform. That means you can take care of billing, reporting, and overall contract management from one place. We’ve recently improved the registration process and overhauled the first-time offer experience to simplify onboarding.

Opportunity Unlimited helps you hire with impact

When tapping into global independent talent to achieve your business goals, consider the impact you can have in helping displaced individuals reclaim economic independence by giving them the opportunity to work, no matter their location.

Millions of people’s lives have been disrupted by the war in Ukraine, dramatically increasing the number of refugees who’ve fled violent conflict and persecution across the globe, from countries like Syria, Afghanistan, Venezuela, South Sudan, and others. The professionals whose lives have been disrupted and/or displaced are looking for ways to create a new beginning.

Opportunity Unlimited is a partnership between Upwork and the Tent Partnership for Refugees to connect companies with incredible professionals whose lives have been disrupted or displaced by conflict. Talk to your account manager to learn how your organization can participate as a hiring partner.

Rewrite the rules for your business with Upwork

Companies have been driven to transform how they work in order to stay competitive. The most successful are leveraging that change to create a forward-looking plan for success. How is your team adapting to today’s shifting business environment?  

Upwork is a partner that can help you bring your transformative vision to life. These latest Enterprise Suite feature releases are just part of the journey. Let’s talk about how your company can move forward with Enterprise Suite. Schedule a call today.