“Our journey toward embracing a freelance talent program was born out of a need to scale specific programs,” said Paul Estes, Senior Director of Content Strategy for Microsoft Office. “Working with Upwork, we spearheaded a pilot program leveraging a team of freelancers to strategically complement our existing workforce and increase the team’s productivity and efficiency.”
Microsoft used the Upwork Enterprise solution, to launch an enterprise-grade freelance program, that allows them to give their employees access to a large pool of flexible, freelance talent. Within the past year, Microsoft has completed over 2,000 projects on Upwork ranging from writing, research, video editing, translation, design and data science, with adoption spanning across 25 internal teams and hundreds of employees.
For full details on the partnership please read: https://www.upwork.com/blog/2018/12/upwork-microsoft-freelance-teams-scale/.
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