[prewett]

It sounds like what you are saying is UpWork provides great value for businesses looking to hire inexpensive contractors. For US-based contractors, which I assume your parent poster might be, it doesn't sound like they provide such great value. At least, none of your reasons help the contractor any. And being in a system where they can easily be underbid by overseas labor doesn't sound so fun, either.

[pvaldes]

> Without upwork, we would not be using contractors in Russia or Argentina.

>> what you are saying is UpWork provides great value for businesses looking to hire inexpensive contractors

Or translators from Russian and Spanish, people can hire overseas for several different reasons.

[x0x0]

Good Russian talent is priced close to rural US talent. We've paid up to $60/hour.

That's not sfbay pricing obviously, but it's not what you would consider cheap.

Our primary use for contractors was spinning up engineers immediately.