Swedish co among 50 top online employers in 2011
Monday, 9 January 2012
FE Report
Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing and crowd sourcing marketplace, has become among 50 fastest growing online job employers in 2011.
The technology industry continued its growth in 2011 mainly due to the boom in programming and data entry jobs.
Formerly known as GetAFreelancer.com, the company was founded in 2004 by Plendo in Sweden.
Freelancer Chief Executive, Matt Barrie, said: "As the largest outsourcing marketplace in the world with over 3 million freelancers and 1.3 million jobs posted to date, the Freelancer.com Fast 50 provides unparalleled and timely insights into online job trends, success and failure in the product marketplace and market share in application support for a range of companies, technologies and products."
More than 0.13 million jobs were posted in the fourth quarter, up from 114,000 jobs in Quarter (Q)3.
"The sophistication and nature of jobs continues to amaze us as we see jobs outsourced in areas as diverse as Astrophysics, Genetic Engineering and Industrial Design," Barrie added.
Ad Sense and content writing jobs pulled back after surging in Q3.
Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing and crowd sourcing marketplace, has become among 50 fastest growing online job employers in 2011.
The technology industry continued its growth in 2011 mainly due to the boom in programming and data entry jobs.
Formerly known as GetAFreelancer.com, the company was founded in 2004 by Plendo in Sweden.
Freelancer Chief Executive, Matt Barrie, said: "As the largest outsourcing marketplace in the world with over 3 million freelancers and 1.3 million jobs posted to date, the Freelancer.com Fast 50 provides unparalleled and timely insights into online job trends, success and failure in the product marketplace and market share in application support for a range of companies, technologies and products."
More than 0.13 million jobs were posted in the fourth quarter, up from 114,000 jobs in Quarter (Q)3.
"The sophistication and nature of jobs continues to amaze us as we see jobs outsourced in areas as diverse as Astrophysics, Genetic Engineering and Industrial Design," Barrie added.
Ad Sense and content writing jobs pulled back after surging in Q3.