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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In our customer service team we have a hundred freelancers, in our trust and safety team we have another hundred, in our engineering team we have close to 150. Our own engineering team working for oDesk is made up primarily of Russians and Ukrainians. Of those 350 freelancers I’d guess we have between 40 and 50 countries represented.”.

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