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Self Employed Motivation Poll

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The latest poll on http://www.PeoplePerHour.com, the leading online skills marketplace, shows that more than half  (59.3%) the small business owners and freelancers who use the site went into self employment to achieve a better work-life balance:

The poll asked:

Q: What is the main reason you are self-employed?

The results:

22.9%  - Earn more money 

59.3%  - Better work-life balance

9.3%    - Hated my boss   

Xenios Thrasyvoulou, CEO of the online skills marketplace, PeoplePerHour.com says: "Feedback from our freelancers certainly supports this result. They often mention the improvement to their work-life balance from going self-employed."

PeoplePerHour.com are already the UK leaders for the online skills market with over 6,000 registered users. To date nearly 1500 projects posted by businesses on PeoplePerHour.com have been successfully completed by a selection from around 4500 registered providers from the UK (49%), and (in decreasing order) from US, India, Argentina and Spain, demonstrating that small businesses are increasingly able to tap into a global labour market.

Buyers choose from an average of five bids per project posted and in many cases can access CV, photo, description, sample work and referee contact details.

PeoplePerHour.com ensures service providers get paid fast on completion through a combination of their unique escrow facility plus PayPal.

The busiest work categories are (in descending order): web development & programming, design, admin support, writing (including translations and transcriptions), marketing & PR, and research.

London-based PeoplePerHour.com’s innovative system matches buyers of services to providers directly, through an online bidding system designed to encourage providers to pitch their most effective solutions at their keenest prices. eBay-style user ratings and feedback provide quality control, and PeoplePerHour’s unique escrow system provides credit protection to both sides.