Elance and oDesk were two of the pioneering online resources for connecting freelancers and clients. In 2015 the companies combined to form a new company, called Upwork. Businesses use the site to post projects that independent freelancers or agencies then bid on. The tasks undertaken can range from web design and copywriting to accountancy and data entry. The Upwork platform matches experts from anywhere in the world—why not, if the deliverables are digital?—with the jobs they are best placed into and provides tools for, among other things, project management and payment. By 2016, Upwork was
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