Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2014

"Freelancer Management Systems (FMS)" is a term used to describe cloud-based systems that allow businesses to better engage and manage independent workers, freelancers and other contingent workers. These systems allow users to search for contingent talent and then activate, manage and pay the independent workers they hire.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 18, 2014

There are several interesting new data points on the increasing use of online talent marketplaces like Elance-oDesk, Freelancer.com, etc. The marketplace themselves are also reporting continued strong growth.  work reports from Elance-oDesk, which recently merged.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2013

.   The study also reports about 30%-40% find the process of locating, hiring and paying freelancers to be difficult and/or cumbersome. Because of this 68% of the respondents said they would be interested in a tool that made it easier to hire, manage and pay freelancers.   Contingent Workforce Freelance'

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

  They also report 2012 will likely see an increase in these numbers. In 2013, products that help users manage time, life and work effectively will be in demand, as will services targeted to relieve our schedules of mundane tasks and improve personal experience (see trend 4, Small Businesses Hit the Road).

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Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2014

 But several recent studies report that small business formation and entrepreneurship are in decline. There are simply too many people participating in online commerce sites like Etsy, Airbnb, Elance, oDesk, Uber for this not to be true. Elance alone, for example,  is reporting it's creating more than 50,000 new U.S.

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