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