Authors: Erick Schonfeld
Tuesday, 07 September 2010 17:51
Online Workers Doing Fine, ODesk Passes One Million Hours A Month
While full-time tech jobs might not be making a roaring comeback, freelance and part-time work seems to be picking up the slack. One data point just came out today illustrating the shift to freelance and online work. Online outsourcer oDesk passed one million hours of work on its system for the first time in the month of August. A
year ago, workers on oDesk were logging less than half of that, about 400,000 hours per month. Online hiring is up 129 percent since last year, compared to flat employment growth in the larger economy.
The work on oDesk is spread across 215,000 employers and 720,000 contractors, whose desktops are monitored by oDesk's software. The top three job categories on oDesk are Web Programming, Web Design, and Blog & Article Writing. Cumulatively, employers have paid out more than $185 million to online workers through oDesk, up from the $100-million mark last October.
0
0
Read 6064 times
Published in
News Technologique-Tech News
Last WebBuzz
-
WebBuzz du 24/11/2017: Pérou décoller comme superman-Peru Reverse bungee aka Superman Jump
Read 37641 times
-
WebBuzz du 22/11/2017: Une Femme Saoudienne fait du surf dans les rues-Saudi girl Car Surfing after heavy rains and flood in Saudi Arabia
Read 37997 times
-
WebBuzz du 20/11/2017: Maxi crach au grand prix GT à Macau-Huge pile up Crash 2017 Macau Grand Prix FIA GT World Cup
Read 32897 times
-
WebBuzz du 17/11/2017: Boston Dynamics fait le cirque avec ses robots-BD prepare to build a circus with his robots
Read 35644 times
-
WebBuzz du 16/11/2017: Une illusion d'optique féminine-a feminine optical illusion
Read 33729 times
-
WebBuzz du 14/11/2017: Roumanie un bus de police évite un tram de justesse-Close call between a tram and police's bus
Read 30352 times
-
WebBuzz du 13/11/2017: Arrivée fracassante d'un bateau sur les docks de San Diego-Whale Watching Boat Crashing Into San Diego Dock
Read 28618 times
-
WebBuzz du 08/11/2017: Créer des flammes de toutes les couleurs-How to make colourful flames
Read 29489 times
-
WebBuzz du 07/11/2017: Echec test du système de détection des piètons de la Volvo S60-Volvo S60 Pedestrian Detection System Test failed
Read 30692 times
-
WebBuzz du 03/11/2017: Slacker dans la forêt-slackline in the forest
Read 33154 times