In A Tight Economy, Outsourced Developers On oDesk Work 100,000 Hours A Week

The economy may still be trying to pick itself up, but one beneficiary of tighter budgets is outsourcing marketplace oDesk. Web developers and software engineers looking for project work can find jobs on oDesk, and employers can post jobs. Workers download PC-monitoring software which lets employers keep track of precisely how distant they are on the job, even whether it is in their pajamas at 3 AM.

As a conclusion, oDesk publishes aggregate documents on the “oConomy” and how many collective hours a week are being billed through its service. In July, the hours worked on oDesk surpassed 100,000 a week for the first duration, and $65

million worth of work was posted on the site.

That is still a drop in the bucket of the overall tech economy, but it is an indication that outsourcing is growing in the down economy. Competitor Elance, which covers a broader set of industries, shows similar trends.

oDesk is backed by Benchmark Capital and has raised $29 million, most recently a $15 million round last year.

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