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Online hiring halls rely on global labor pool
San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | Sunday, August 22, 2010 | Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer

Posted on 08/22/2010 10:25:21 PM PDT by thecodont

After Erik Budde mortgaged his San Carlos home 2 1/2 years ago and launched his latest startup, RVParking.com, he kept a laser-like focus on efficiency.

[...]

So Budde kept direct employment to a minimum and used lower cost, Web-based workers whenever possible.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/22/BU0D1F0IJ7.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0xP4BvBFm

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hiringhalls; hitech; laborpool; outsourcing
From the article:

ODesk is one of several Web-based hiring halls that enable employers to find computer-based workers anywhere in the world. It also provides the technological tools to supervise these workers, by giving bosses a way to see what the worker has on his or her computer screen and taking digital snapshots to make sure the person is at the keyboard.

In a nation desperate for jobs and hopeful that small firms will fill their traditional role of doing most of the new hiring, sites such as oDesk, Elance, Guru.com and PeoplePerHour create a global labor pool for any sort of computer-based task.

1 posted on 08/22/2010 10:25:24 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont
Also...
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Rent-a-Coder (now VWorker)

I've heard very good things about both.

2 posted on 08/22/2010 10:32:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: thecodont

ping


3 posted on 08/22/2010 11:13:54 PM PDT by glide625
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To: thecodont

Ping for reference


4 posted on 08/23/2010 12:22:26 AM PDT by Wolfstar
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