This is very valuable in today's workplace where 92 percent of millennials want to work remotely and 87 percent want to work on their own clock, per a study
by oDesk.
This analysis
by Odesk assumes an annual online work industry growth rate of 31 % and an annual connected population growth rate of 11 %.
Not exact matches
That's a far cry from the results of a study commissioned this year
by the Freelancers Union and Elance -
oDesk, which put the number of freelancers — a broader category that includes temps, part - timers, and moonlighters — at 53 million, or one in three American workers.
In a survey of 1,039 millennials
by Elance -
oDesk released in October, nearly 80 percent of the respondents said they would like to quit their regular job to work for themselves.
In 2014, two leading freelance networks, Elance and
oDesk, merged to form Upwork, which is now the largest network for freelancers
by a long shot.
According to a study of more than 5,000 American freelancers released in August
by the Freelancers Union and Elance -
oDesk, 34 percent of the U.S. workforce — or 53 million people — is now working as freelancers.
Furthermore, in a recent study led
by Elance -
oDesk and Millennial Branding, 80 % of millennials surveyed would consider leaving their jobs and creating their own companies in the future.
This survey was conducted
by independent research firm Red Brick Research on behalf of Elance -
oDesk from September 1 — September 10, 2014, among 1,039 Millennials (21 — 32 years old) and 200 hiring managers (33 + years old).
One (not entirely unfair) way to categorize the two sites was that
oDesk catered to the cheaper end of the market, whereas eLance was often more expensive and
by implication, the quality of freelancers was higher (although not always the case).
Much of this «piecework» is facilitated
by online services such as
oDesk, which claims to enable its corporate customers to» [h] ire, manage, and pay a distributed workteam as if everyone were in your office.»
In fact, the 2015 Millennial Majority Workforce study
by Elance -
oDesk and Millennial Branding found that 28 percent of Millennial workers are already at management level.
In fact, the 2015 Millennial Majority Workforce study
by Elance -
oDesk and Millennial Branding found that 28 percent of Millennial workers are already at management -LSB-...]