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Thousands of Businesses UseoDesk to Hire, Manage and Pay Remote Workers Around the World
TodayoDesk (www.oDesk.com),an online marketplace that allows companies to hire, manage and payremote technical workers around the world, announced that a record tenmillion dollars has been spent on technology projectsthrough the company’s global job marketplace. Thousands ofcompanies across the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Saudi Arabia, Australiaand other countries have used oDesk to hire from more than 10,000tested, rated technology professionals from all over the world.
“As advances in technology and communication takeplace around the world, businesses are growing more comfortable lookingoutside of their local areas for the best technology talent,”said Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk. “oDesk achieving thismilestone demonstrates this increasing level of comfort, and provesthat both employers and technology professionals enjoy theopportunities provided by oDesk’s trustedmarketplace.”
More than 7,500 jobs have been completed through oDesk, wherethe most in-demand programming skills are PHP/MySQL, C#/.Net, ASP,Java/J2EE and C/C++/Win32SDK. The most popular countries for providersinclude India, Russia, the Ukraine, the U.S. and the Philippines.Through oDesk, providers set their own rates for fixed-price or hourlyjobs and employers can search for talent based on skills, feedbackratings, work history and pay.
Unique to oDesk are a set of integrated management andcollaboration tools that allow employers to track project progress andcollaborate with team members as though all were working in the sameoffice. For example the oDesk WorkDiary, which captures screenshots ofa provider’s desktop at random intervals, used withoDesk’s source code repository and bug tracking system,removes the barriers many companies face when considering hiring remotetalent.
oDesk recently added fixed-price jobs to its onlinemarketplace, where the number of hours billed has grown an average of14 percent per month since the company’s inception in 2004.oDesk is venture-backed by Benchmark Capital, Globespan CapitalPartners and Sigma Partners, and was recently chosen from more than 200companies as one of the Launchpad 13 at the Web 2.0 Summit.
For more interesting statistics on pay rates and skills percountry in the oDesk network, check out the oDesk/O’ReillyMedia Global Economy Mashup at http://coati.oreilly.com/odesk/
About oDesk
Everyday, oDesk helps people all over the world work together,as if they were seated in the same office. Founded in 2004, oDesk (www.oDesk.com) is aglobal marketplace for programmers and technology freelancers thatenables businesses to build and manage remote teams. Hiring managerscan search the oDesk network and choose from among thousands of tested,top-rated technology professionals in over 50 countries around theworld. Using oDesk web-based collaboration tools, project managers canvisually track and verify all work performed, both historically and inreal-time. oDesk is venture-backed by Benchmark Capital, GlobespanCapital Partners and Sigma Partners.
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