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| July 22, 2008 |
| Natasha Lomas |
Economic gloom and the rising cost of living in the UK is making IT workers in full time employment take on extra work outside office hours.
Freelance services website PeoplePerHour.com says it currently has 3,500 people offering work in at least one IT-related category, with more than a third (35 per cent) also in full time employment - with this figure rising each month. |
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| July 13, 2008 |
| Robert Watts |
They are the middle-class moonlighters. Thousands of professionals are taking on second jobs to help them cope with the soaring cost of food, fuel, mortgages and other household bills.
Lawyers, financial advisers, computer programmers and marketing managers are among those now hunting for freelance work to do outside — or even during — office hours to cover the rising cost of living. |
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| June 28, 2008 |
| Peter Ranscombe |
Imagine working all day long as a personal assistant - but never meeting your boss face-to-face. That strange situation is one in which Theresia Piggott now finds herself on a regular basis.
Piggot works as a "virtual" personal assistant (PA), carrying out administration tasks for a range of companies from her home at ForFar in Angus. Outsourcing administrative functions - and other striaght forward tasks appears to be on the increase with one online firm attributing a strong growth in business to the credit crunch.
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| June 24, 2008 |
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One website reckons times are getting so tough that people are starting to take on second jobs...
With fuel prices soaring and food costs creeping up by the day, money’s going to get a lot tighter for most households in the coming year |
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| May 31, 2008 |
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Like one-in-10 workers, Helen Castree, 29, has a job on the side – earning extra money in the evenings and weekends working as a freelance part-time personal assistant.
After getting married a couple of years ago, she was looking for a way to generate extra income to pay into the mortgage before starting a family.
"I thought that, as I have a skill, I might as well use it," said Mrs Castree, from Shropshire. She found the easiest way to get work was via the internet and signed up with the free service, www.PeoplePerHour.com, to bid for work – which can be done remotely for businesses and individuals across the country. |
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| April 14, 2008 |
| Fritz Nelson |
| We caught up with Simon Kitiris, Peopleperhour's co-founder and CTO, at Startup Camp in London last month. It is an online services marketplace for small businesses |
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| March 27, 2008 |
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| Interview with Xenios Thrasyvoulou, founder and CEO of peopleperhour.com. They talk about Xenios's own business journey, the benefits of outsourcing, London as a centre for web entrepreneurs and plans for international growth. |
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| February 27, 2008 |
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Interview on Outsourcing of Xenios Thrasyvoulou, CEO of PeoplePerHour.com, by Tiscali.co.uk. |
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| February 15, 2008 |
| Emma Jones |
This site is a marketplace for freelancers; matching self-employed and home-working professionals with project work in small businesses. If you’re looking for work, or someone to do your work, it’s worth paying this site a visit. |
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| February 12, 2008 |
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The CEO and founder of Peopleperhour.com, Xenios Thrasyvoulou is expecting to make the small and medium sized businesses smarter with his methods. He and other people related to this firm predict that the small businesses along with the freelancers will require smarter ways for generating income in this year. |
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| January 21, 2008 |
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| Do you freelance? Peopleperhour.com can help find your next project. Like the name says, peopleperhour, focuses on light projects that require only a few hours work. It’s a cost-effective and flexible service that takes out the trouble of hiring someone full time. |
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| January 20, 2008 |
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Xenios Thrasyvoulou, CEO of the online skills marketplace predicts small businesses will need smarter and different ways to generate income in 2008
Xenios Thrasyvoulou, CEO of the innovative London-based online skills marketplace, PeoplePerHour.com predicts small businesses and freelancers will need smarter ways to generate income or handle work in 2008. He predicts:
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| November 2, 2007 |
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| There is nothing more frustrating than having 10 or more little jobs that need completing and no time or resources to get them done...More >> |
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| September 25, 2007 |
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A NEW online marketplace has been launched which allows small businesses to out-source projects of all sizes.
A community of skilled people can then compete for the business.
PeoplePerHour.com taps into the demand for a new approach to matching the needs of employers with the needs of the employee. This has arisen because of recent profound changes in the structure of the UK
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| September 24, 2007 |
| onrec.com |
A new online marketplace has launched today (24th September), allowing small businesses to out-source projects of all sizes - even small tasks - to a community of skilled people who can complete them.
PeoplePerHour.com taps into the demand for a new approach to matching the needs of employers with the needs of the employee, which has arisen due to recent profound changes in the structure of the UK workforce.
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| June 13, 2007 |
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While running a successful small business, it can be tough to find that balance between committing enou...More >> |
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