I used to work as a project manager , where we had a large pool of vetted freelancers. You'd select the type of work, specify the price and the system would sen

I used to work as a project manager , where we had a large pool of vetted freelancers. You'd select the type of work, specify the price and the system would send a mass email to those- whoever accepts first, gets the job. Most of our clients were banks or investment funds. The company was providing translation services. So a fund gets to update one word in one of their files and it does happen in 12 different languages. We charge minimum fee per job, so 12 words becomes £360. The fund couldn't care less. However, because it's only one word, a single freelancer( 12 in total, for each language) would only get like £0.12 or so. They would also need to update the translation memory and send us an invoice. Nobody wanted to do it, because of this. So I used to struggle to get these jobs done because time was always very limited. We also had 50% margin per project requirement. So I ended up paying £5 per word, which would end up costing me £60, but it would still leave £300 profit for the company. Just like that I solved my issue, because the freelancers were happy to do it. The vendor management killed it a couple of months before my departure claiming no freelancer should get more than the agreed rate....