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I’ve probably hired about $150,000 of contracts through up work and never once have we required the monitoring app to be used. However, we have a bit of a diffe
by danj 7y ago
I’ve probably hired about $150,000 of contracts through up work and never once have we required the monitoring app to be used. However, we have a bit of a different approach, we will “pay” you through upwork for the first month, but if we are satisfied with your work after a month we pay you directly through PayPal or wire transfer and then we cancel the contract on upwork. Out of all of the contractors we have hired (20-30) I can only think of one who wanted complete payment through upwork.
I know how bad upwork is and when we hired we genuinely always set out to get the contractors we worked with off using it so they can keep more money.
- social_quotient 7y agoMight not want to post that here if you intend on keeping that account - https://www.upwork.com/legal#noncircumvention https://www.upwork.com/legal#noncircumvention
- sixstringtheory 7y agoThere’s an opt-out clause, but I don’t know enough about talent acquisition costs to know whether it’s a good deal. My assumption is that recruiting agencies and internal processes are super expensive, so Upwork might be a cheaper option even with the opt-out fee.
- danj 7y agoWe have such a solid team now and we have lots of other channels for hiring people now but thank you!
- social_quotient 7y agoCare to share a channel or exchange some knowledge? We buy about 50k hours a year off of upwork, would love to learn how others are doing it. John @ curtisdigital . com
- greendestiny_re 7y agoThe e-mail address isn't working, neither is info@<website>. You might want to take a look into that.