On-Demand Remote Talent Acquisition at Scale, Simplified by Upwork Enterprise

The new enhancements under Upwork Enterprise help enterprises to discover, deduce, constitute and operationalize ad-hoc remote workforces at scale.

Upwork has announcedOpens a new window upgrades to its enterprise-scale freelancing and remote talent-hunting platform – Upwork Enterprise, to help large businesses create access to a centralized pool of talent. Enterprises can now efficiently manage talent and resources spread across various specializations, and geographies, across thousands of sets of skills.

Hayden Brown, CEO at Upwork was quoted as saying, “The ability to source and scale a skilled workforce that is already accustomed to and adept at remote work is essential for businesses to dynamically operate, especially during these disruptive times. This is particularly true as companies have seen that working remotely can be just as successful as traditional on premises talent models.”

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Another significant aspect is that while the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has got the majority of teams working remotely, a significant portion of the American workforce – nearly 30 million – are out of jobs. Platforms like Upwork and the new Upwork Enterprise upgrade are useful as talent can register themselves and enterprises can easily access and find that talent to serve their distributed teams without worrying about the logistical or operational aspects. As the CEO of Upwork, Hayden Brown put it in his 2019 year end remarkOpens a new window , “This company was founded on a transformational idea that today seems like an inevitability: high quality work and workers available on demand, at the touch of a button.”

Naturally, in the current situation, Upwork has seen a rise in user accounts, as tweeted byOpens a new window Joshua Fruhlinger of ThinkNum Media, and it’s forcing everyone to ask if the gig economy is back or if it’s just taking on new forms to serve the urgent distributed workforce needs of corporates.

While Upwork’s recent upgrades for large enterprises makes it easier to access and source millions of professionals to address these shifts in demand, the most exciting aspect is the removal of geographical constraints to hiring the best talent.

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We also liked the Bring Your Own Talent option on Upwork Enterprise that allows centralization of Upwork as well as existing non-Upwork professionals of the organization, to drive efficient workforce management activities like payroll disbursement, cost management etc. It has real potential to further bust the challenges associated with managing geographically distributed workforces. The need of the hour is solutions that enable enterprises to manage remote workforces easily, hire top talent quickly, pay them efficiently, and of course manage them securely. .

Here are three of the more interesting features of the Upwork Enterprise upgrade:

1. Centralization: Enterprises can consolidate talent sourced from Upwork as well as their existing professionals with Bring Your Own Talent
2. Legal Compliance: Upwork supports legal compliances of remotely-based professionals

3. Payroll: Supports payroll automation for contract labor in over 160 countries.

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