Freelancer.com
| 250px | |
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Traded as | ASX: FLN |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Freelancer Level 20 680 George Street Sydney, Australia, Australia |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Matt Barrie |
| CEO | Matt Barrie |
| Key people | Matt Barrie, CEO Darren Williams, CTO Neil Katz, CFO David Harrison, VP Eng Willix Halim, VP Growth Matt O'Kane, VP Tech Ops |
| Industry | Freelance marketplace, Online outsourcing, Employment website |
| Employees | 350 (Feb 2014) |
| Website | Freelancer.com |
| Alexa rank |  452 (April 2014[update])[1] |
| Type of site | Freelance marketplace |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 15,852,359 (Jun 25 2015)[2] |
| Available in | English, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Filipino, Dutch[2] |
| Launched | 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
Freelancer is a global crowdsourcing marketplace, which allows potential employers to post jobs that freelancers can then bid to complete. Founded in 2009, its headquarters is located in Sydney, Australia, though it also has offices in Vancouver, London, Buenos Aires, Manila and Jakarta.
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Description
Freelancer is a marketplace where employers and employees are able to find each other. The site allows employers to post work to get done. Anybody is then able to offer quotes to complete the project, upon which point the original employer is able to award the work.
Freelancer has different levels of membership. Free accounts can only bid on 8 projects per month and cannot make direct deposit withdrawals. Higher tiers of paid accounts get additional bids, direct deposit withdrawals, and other features.[3]
Freelancer takes a 10% fee, which can be reduced with paid monthly membership, with a minimum fee of $5.[3] The company has recently announced its new move into home and local services, staying first in its home market of Australia.[4]
Background
Freelancer has acquired several crowdsourcing marketplaces including Get A Freelancer.com and EUFreelance.com (founded by Magnus Tibell in 2004, Sweden),[5] LimeExchange (a former business of Lime Labs LLC, USA),[6] Scriptlance.com (founded by Rene Trescases in 2001, Canada)[7]- one of the early pioneers in freelancing, Freelancer.de Booking Center (Germany), Freelancer.co.uk (United Kingdom),[8] Webmaster-talk.com (USA), a forum for webmasters,[9] and vWorker (founded by Ian Ippolito, USA).[10]
As of 8 January 2013, the company has set up 25 regional marketplaces with local language, customer service and currency support including the United States (Global), United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Philippines,[11] India[12][13] and Latin America.[14] On 2 April 2014, Freelancer acquired Ukraine based digital content marketplace-Fantero.[15]
In April 2015, Freelancer acquired Escrow.com, a provider of escrow services based in the United States.[16]
Legal issues
In December 2015 the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) found Freelancer at fault for breaching the Privacy Act by violating the privacy rights of a former user and awarded that individual $20,000 in aggravated damages when Freelancer employees publicly exposed on Wikipedia and elsewhere the individual's private information, IP addresses, pseudonyms and other details after the individual wrote several critical comments and personal blog posts about the company. OAIC further ordered Freelancer to issue a written apology to the individual and for staff to undergo additional training on the handling of sensitive personally identifiable information. Spokespersons speaking on behalf of the company expressed their intent to appeal the ruling.[17][18][19]
Awards
- 2015 Best Employment Website, 19th Annual Webby Awards and People's Voice[20]
- 2015 Best Professional Services Website, 19th Annual Webby Awards and People's Voice[21]
- 2012 Deloitte Australia Technology Fast 50[22]
- 2012 Silver Stevie Award, International Business Awards[23]
- 2012 People's Voice Webby Award for Employment, 16th Annual Webby Awards[24]
- 2011 Webby Award for Employment, People's Voice Award, 15th Annual Webby Awards[25]
- 2011 BRW Fast Starters[26]
- 2011 BRW Fast 100[27]
- 2010 Best Export Achievement, People's Choice Award, 17th Annual AIMIA Awards[28]
- 2010 Anthill Cool Company Awards: Best Online Business[29]
See also
References
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