Freelance Marketplace Elance-Odesk Rebrands As Upwork, Launches Unified Site For Finding Your Next Gig
If you’re a freelancer you’ve probably come across either Elance or oDesk when looking for work. Today, the company is announcing that it’s rebranding and merging both sites together under a new brand, Upwork. As part of the unification, the company hopes its new site will help get freelancers hired faster. A new real-time collaboration feature is designed to make chatting and working with clients easier. What’s interesting about that real-time collaboration feature is that Upwork say it’s similar to Slack but made for collaborating on freelance projects. Upwork’s new messaging feature will be available to everyone for free, even those who…
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