Great platform to bring together service providers with business owners in the most agile way
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used by departments independently, rather than a top-bottom approach. Our company lead and managed a significant amount of its wor through outsourcing and that's exactly where UpWork comes into play. UpWork makes it possible to find a vast range of skills in pretty much any area from graphic design to software development or simply translation. Hence, our organization uses UpWork within departments according to rather spontaneous needs, different departments having different business needs.
Pros
- Outsourcing
- Services Platform
- Contract
Cons
- It is a bit hard to distinguish good, high-quality service providers from the mass, huge amount of population. Due to high competition, even high-quality services are forced to lower prices and this can be realized only once the service is completed. So UpWork has room for improvement to distinguish quality from the mediocrity.
- Even though it is supposed to increase the overall quality, the entry barrier is a mechanism to prevent quality service to enter into the free market, too. So, rather than simply disallowing new memberships, there must be a better way to filter good service providers.
Likelihood to Recommend
UpWork is especially useful when a spontaneous, niche, rather specialized custom work is needed such as graphic design where one's company/organization might not have such a team within. Because UpWork is full of responsive, responsible, hard-working, and highly available service providers, even strict deadlines will be met thanks to its great community and performance system UpWork created. So it can be said, rather than everyday tasks, UpWork is best fitted for niche, custom work that can arise in somewhat exceptional times with strict deadlines.
Vetted Review
2 years of experience