PeoplePerHour.com (http://www.peopleperhour.com/) – Europe’s biggest online business marketplace – today reported a 51 percent increase in the number of businesses in Manchester hiring freelancers in the last month, during the festive season.
The latest figures found that there has been an increase of 102 percent of internet companies outsourcing work through PeoplePerHour.com, with further increases in education (170 percent increase), engineering firms (167 percent increase) and entertainment (a 124 percent increase).
The majority of the firms stated that they are now working through PeoplePerHour.com to save money, employing freelance consultants for defined short-term jobs in HR, design, PR and marketing.
An astonishing 91 percent of business respondents reported that the quality of work done by remote workers is as good or better than full-time staff.
According to PeoplePerHour.com founder and CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou these latest figures show that “businesses in Manchester are boosting their margins this Christmas by using highly-skilled freelancers. The threat of a double-dip recession means that businesses are looking to cut costs wherever they can.
“Businesses in Manchester, however, have found many positives working with freelance consultants. They cite high levels of creativity, motivation and a diversity of skills that bring significant added benefits to their businesses.
“The new businesses in Manchester joining PeoplePerHour.com are clear that they are enjoying a double whammy of reduced costs while employing a more creative and highly skilled workforce,” said Thrasyvoulou.
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PeoplePerHour.com Background Information
PeoplePerHour.com connects businesses with skilled individuals to get work done remotely.
The site serves the small business sector and has over 45,000 registered users growing at 15% per month, of whom 70% are micro-businesses (five or less employees) and 20% are between five and 20 employees.
The company started in 2007 and has been grown consistently, unabated by the recession. This growth has been fuelled by companies’ need to drive down costs and find more innovative, cost-effective and flexible ways of getting jobs done.
Main service categories on the site are IT& Web, Graphic Design, Telesales, Marketing and PR, Copywriting and Translation services.
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