Type of business Public Traded as ASX: FLN Area served Worldwide | Type of site Freelance marketplace Country of origin Australia Founder Matt Barrie Headquarters Sydney, Australia | |
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Available in Stock price FLN (ASX) A$ 0.88 -0.04 (-4.37%)17 Mar, 3:06 PM GMT+11 - Disclaimer CEO Matt Barrie (10 Feb 2010–) Profiles | ||
How freelancer com works
Freelancer is a global crowdsourcing marketplace website, 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 Southern California, Vancouver, London, Buenos Aires, Manila, and Jakarta.
Contents
- How freelancer com works
- Complete tutorial for freelancer com
- Description
- Background
- Legal issues
- Awards
- References
Complete tutorial for freelancer com
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 acquired several crowdsourcing marketplaces including Get A Freelancer.com and EUFreelance.com (founded by Magnus Tibell in 2004, Sweden), LimeExchange (a former business of Lime Labs LLC, USA), Scriptlance.com (founded by Rene Trescases in 2001, Canada)- one of the early pioneers in freelancing, Freelancer.de Booking Center (Germany), Freelancer.co.uk (United Kingdom), Webmaster-talk.com (USA), a forum for webmasters, and vWorker (founded by Ian Ippolito, USA).
As of 29 March 2016, the company has set up 44 regional marketplaces and operates in 34 languages and 21 currencies. India and Latin America. On 2 April 2014, Freelancer acquired Ukraine based digital content marketplace-Fantero.
In April 2015, Freelancer acquired Escrow.com, a provider of Internet escrow services based in the United States.
Freelancer takes a 10% fee, which can be reduced with paid monthly membership, with a minimum fee of $5. The company has recently announced its new move into home and local services, staying first in its home market of Australia.
Most of Freelancer's users come from India, the United States, Philippines, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom, but it is represented through its user network in 247 countries, regions, and territories; and in both emerging and developed markets. The top three job categories that most frequently get job requests are IT and software, 34%; design, media and architecture, 31%; and writing & content, 13%. The company has offices in Manila, Philippines; Sydney, Australia; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Buenos Aires, Argentina; London, United Kingdom; and Jakarta, Indonesia.
Background
Freelancer has acquired several crowdsourcing marketplaces including Get A Freelancer.com and EUFreelance.com (founded by Magnus Tibell in 2004, Sweden), LimeExchange (a former business of Lime Labs LLC, USA), Scriptlance.com (founded by Rene Trescases in 2001, Canada)- one of the early pioneers in freelancing, Freelancer.de Booking Center (Germany), Freelancer.co.uk (United Kingdom), Webmaster-talk.com (USA), a forum for webmasters, and vWorker (founded by Ian Ippolito, USA).
As of 29 March 2016, the company has set up 44 regional marketplaces and operates in 34 languages and 21 currencies. India and Latin America. On 2 April 2014, Freelancer acquired Ukraine based digital content marketplace-Fantero.
In April 2015, Freelancer acquired Escrow.com, a provider of Internet escrow services based in the United States.
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.