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| August 23, 2010 |
| Tom Abate |
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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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| August 20, 2010 |
| Jonathan Moules |
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Most owner-managers believe it is easier to set up in business now than five years ago, in spite of the continued problems of access to finance, according to a poll by PeoplePerHour, an online marketplace for temporary staff. |
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| August 18, 2010 |
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As an advertising art director, Jeff Quigley isn't the type of worker who traditionally holds two jobs. But after getting hit by a one-day-a-week furlough and pay cut last year, Mr. Quigley has joined a fast-growing sector of the work force: White-collar moonlighters. |
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| August 17, 2010 |
| Sue Shellenbarger |
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In this shaky economy, a few of my friends who are lucky enough to have jobs have recently started moonlighting, to hedge against possible layoffs or pay cuts. |
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| August 16, 2010 |
| Conrad Quilty-Harper |
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An investigation by the Telegraph has shown that millions are being spent on council website redesigns, despite the looming prospect of job cuts at those same councils. |
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| August 16, 2010 |
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What happens when a council spends £2.8m on its website? Well, Birmingham city council discovered the answer when local developers thought they could do a better job - and promptly did, for a fraction of the cost. You can see the result, BCCdiy, here. |
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| August 6, 2010 |
| Jonathan Moules |
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The freelance economy is booming in the UK, according to PeoplePerHour.com, which operates an online marketplace for jobs. |
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| July 17, 2010 |
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A survey by PeoplePerHour.com showed that entrepreneurs are becoming more internet-savvy.
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| July 14, 2010 |
| Katie Allen |
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Former financial controller Chris Clarke set up his own book-keeping business after being made redundant |
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| June 25, 2010 |
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Sites like Elance.com, Guru.com and oDesk.com allow employers to hire freelancers or contractors anywhere in the world, putting U.S. workers in competition with a global labor pool.
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| June 22, 2010 |
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It appears that our new government is serious about changing what the public sector does and how it spends money.And change it must. |
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| June 21, 2010 |
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Contractor and freelancer marketplace PeoplePerHour.com maintained its growth in the value of assignments posted by clients throughout the recession and in September 2009 saw the first of a series of sharp increases, which led to compounded monthly growth of 30% and an all-time high in January 2010. |
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| May 14, 2010 |
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As the U.S. economy sputters its way back to health, American freelancers increasingly are finding themselves working for companies overseas in what's becoming a type of reverse outsourcing. Executives at Sologig, Elance, oDesk, and People Per Hour say they're seeing more corporations and small businesses from the U.K., Australia, China, Pakistan, and India turn to the U.S. freelance market. |
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| May 5, 2010 |
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The bill to the taxpayer has increased by 18.6 per cent over the last year at a time when essential services face stringent cuts. The final cost is likely to be much higher as several councils failed to respond to a Freedom of Information request to reveal the figures. |
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| April 27, 2010 |
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Councils seem happy to pay way over market rate to get their Web sites looked after, if a one-off piece of research is right. |
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| April 26, 2010 |
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Private sector businesses are spending on average 10 times less on their web site services than UK local councils, according to research from freelance jobs site PeoplePerHour.com. |
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| March 28, 2010 |
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Chris Clarke changed his approach to job hunting and found what he was looking for after being made redundant last year. |
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| March 26, 2010 |
| Nicola Brittain |
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Businesses are moving away from overseas suppliers in favour of companies able to provide the same services locally, according to a survey from online business marketplace PeoplePerHour.com. |
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| March 26, 2010 |
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The IT outsourcing trend towards UK-based suppliers continues to grow, according to a new survey released today.Online business marketplace PeoplePerHour.com polled more than 50,000 business users, and claimed that 60 per cent of UK businesses are outsourcing more than they did two years ago. |
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| February 22, 2010 |
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PeoplePerHour.com is proud to announce that it has been selected as one of the 2010 Smarta 100 winners. |
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| February 17, 2010 |
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[UK] PeoplePerHour.com, the online marketplace for freelancers, has closed an interim funding round with Index Ventures who participated on equal terms with existing shareholders. The actual amount remains undisclosed, but our sources say the figure is in the region of half a million pounds. |
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| February 15, 2010 |
| Sandra Haurant |
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The recession has forced workers and employers alike to rethink traditional nine-to-five roles, but what is the alternative? Sandra Haurant thinks 'ultra-flexible' working could be the answer
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| February 5, 2010 |
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More job placements were made through online recruitment than print advertising and agency use, according to new research from PeoplePerHour.com |
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| February 5, 2010 |
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Online recruitment is the only recruitment channel to grow in 2009, overtaking print advertising recruitment agencies in terms of job placements. |
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| February 4, 2010 |
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Xenios Thrasyvoulou, founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour.com, argues that virtual business principles should be at the heart of any recovery plans. |
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| February 1, 2010 |
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PeoplePerHour.com founder Xenios Thrasyvoulou outlines the benefits and challenges associated with managing staff at home |
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| January 14, 2010 |
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"Britain is going virtual. Mr Darling just made it official" says Xenios Thrasyvoulou, Founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour.com |
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| January 4, 2010 |
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PeoplePerHour founder Xenios Thrasyvoulou goes against the Smarta stopwatch. |
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| December 21, 2009 |
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Small businesses are waking up to the many benefits of operating virtually, says PeoplePerHour.com founder Xenios Thrasyvoulou. |
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| December 17, 2009 |
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| December 14, 2009 |
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A third of small firms say they are considering laying off staff as a result of last week's Pre-Budget Report because the 1% rise in National Insurance contributions will make it more costly to employ people. |
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| December 8, 2009 |
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PeoplePerHour.com, which has been described as an 'eBay for business', is an online marketplace which allows freelancers to advertise for work, and small businesses to outsource work. |
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| October 18, 2009 |
| Elizabeth Colman |
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BBC presenters are not the only ones setting up their own companies to beat tax — growing numbers of professionals are opting out of salaried employment to become consultants and freelancers. |
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| October 12, 2009 |
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Simon Cox from BBC Radio 4 (Click On) interviews PeoplePerHour CEO and Michelle Russell, a freelancer who uses the site. |
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| September 18, 2009 |
| Xenios Thrasyvoulou |
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Xenios Thrasyvoulou is founder and CEO of PeoplePerHour.com a website he started two years ago which has been dubbed "like eBay but for business" – it is an online marketplace for professional services allowing employers to outsource work to freelancers and home workers. |
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| August 27, 2009 |
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HAYLEY BERRY, 30, was told that she was likely to be made redundant after working for 15 months as the marketing manager of a paper recycling company. |
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| August 16, 2009 |
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FOR SOME it's the dream scenario - a chance to be your own boss and go to work in your pyjamas, if you like. Now experts are predicting that by 2015 as many as one in five UK workers will ditch the office and choose to work from home. |
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| August 9, 2009 |
| Alexandra Goss |
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With high-street offers on the way out, the web has the best deals, says Alexandra Goss. |
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| August 5, 2009 |
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With precious little slack in company budgets, propositioning your boss for additional manpower is likely to get short shrift. |
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| August 2, 2009 |
| Phillip Inman |
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The downturn has led to a rise in flexible working as an alternative to job losses, but some big firms seem stuck in the past |
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| July 21, 2009 |
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This is the interview that was held last week on Bloomberg News LIVE, the interview lasted 12 minutes and also featured one of PPH providers.
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| June 23, 2009 |
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IF it makes sense for a marketing man to have a bit of experience of the world, then Jeremy Parsons is well up to speed. |
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| June 22, 2009 |
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With more companies under pressure to cut costs during the recession, many are opting to outsource business processes in a bid to minimise their overheads and concentrate on their core business. |
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| June 18, 2009 |
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A NEWPORT costume designer is putting the tailoring skills taught to him by his mother to good use, designing costumes for film and television including Big Brother and Dr Who. |
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| June 15, 2009 |
| David Woodward |
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PeoplePerHour.com founder CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou wanted to launch before someone else beat him to it
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| June 2, 2009 |
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Lee Stone from BBC Radio Wiltshire interviews PeoplePerHour CEO and Alison Pascalidis, a freelancer who uses the site. |
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| May 28, 2009 |
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| May 28, 2009 |
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As the hunt for jobs gets tougher, it’s vital that you think creatively about filling those missing gaps on your form… |
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| May 28, 2009 |
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If you are looking to outsource a piece of work to rated Freelancers then take a look at the web site PeopleperHour.com that was discussed on the Business Programme on 28/5/9.
John Atkinson reports. He asks the founder how it all got started.
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| May 26, 2009 |
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Earning a bit of additional spending money used to be an optional extra for most people. But the recession has made it a necessity for thousands.
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| May 26, 2009 |
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Start-up and small business activity is showing signs of recovery, new research indicates.
High street bank lending to small businesses rose by £271m from February to March, while deposits from small businesses increased by £881m.
The figures, published this month by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) suggest that UK start-up activity is performing better than was expected. |
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| May 25, 2009 |
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In Victorian times, women who wanted to supplement the household income took in sewing. Today their 21st century counterparts are logging on to the internet in the evening and making money from blogging, freelance research or selling goods on Ebay, as widespread broadband internet connections spawn a growing range of digital cottage industries.
The number of British people with an Ebay business has grown by 160 per cent in the past two years to 178,000. Peopleperhour , a website that allows people to advertise freelance and homeworking services, has seen the number on its books grow from 5,500 a year ago to 21,500 today.
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| May 24, 2009 |
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More than half of people approaching retirement fear their pensions will fall short of expectations after taking a “bet on equities” that has failed to deliver, according to a damning new report.
The research by Ros Altmann, a pensions expert and former Treasury adviser, found nearly a third of savers within five years of retirement feel they have wasted their money, as stock-market returns over the past 10 years have averaged only 1.2%, against 16.1% in the previous decade...
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| May 20, 2009 |
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PeoplePerHour.com is a website that enables start-up and small businesses across the UK to outsource small tasks or projects to rated professionals online. The services range from designing a website, to writing a press release to doing data entry. |
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| May 20, 2009 |
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Alistair Darling has predicted that the recession could be over by Christmas. Some entrepreneurs think he’s talking crazy talk again, others believe there may be some truth in what he’s saying. Speaking to the Times, Darling said he’s standing by his Budget growth forecasts. “I remain confident that we will see a return to growth at the turn of the year,” he said. |
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| May 15, 2009 |
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Losing your job after 12 years with an international company as a senior executive is normally a major blow, but Lindsey Michie has taken career change in her stride.
Lindsey, who comes from Scotland, was made redundant from her London-based job with a US owned IT company last year. The company decided that her job supervising training, communications and recognition programmes was no longer viable. |
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| May 12, 2009 |
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The internet has made it easier for smaller businesses to weather this recession better than previous ones, according to Kent businessman Richard Romain.
Mr Romain, founder of Answers and Solutions Kent (ASK), based in Maidstone, turned to the web to help him operate his telemarketing company as a virtual business. |
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| April 27, 2009 |
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Michelle Russell has been made redundant twice in 11 months.
First she lost her cherished role working at FremantleMedia, the company behind Pop Idol and The X Factor, six months after returning from maternity leave.
"It was my dream job," she says. Then in May last year she was made redundant from a new role at a DVD distribution business after the company decided it could no longer afford a marketing manager.
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| April 26, 2009 |
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With more than two million out of work, unemployment is at it's highest level since Labour came to power in 1997. Darling announced £1.7 billion of funding for Job Centre Plus and the New Deal to help the long-term unemployed get back to work. This is on top of the £1.3 billion announced last November. Tax maximum weekly statutory redundancy pay was increased from £350 to £380.
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| April 20, 2009 |
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PeoplePerHour, the online marketplace matching freelance or self-employed professionals with project work, has closed an Angel funding round. The amount is undisclosed but believed to be in “the low six figures”. The investors include Michael Van Swaaij who was part of the team to launch eBay in Europe and is a former chairman of Skype. |
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| April 19, 2009 |
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| April 14, 2009 |
| Natasha Lomas |
Did you hear the one about the CIO who thought going green was something to do with Scottish football? Or the one about the techie and his unusual second life? Or the one about the IT saleswoman who became a stand-up comedian?
Gags about techies - the IT Crowd aside - aren't exactly common. But then again there aren't that many people in the IT industry that have swapped software and hardware for stand-up comedy, either. |
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| April 9, 2009 |
| Rosanna Spero |
With unemployment already over ttwo million, workers are increasingly choosing to set up their own businesess after being made redundant.
Exclusive research for the Daily Mail shows that three in five Britons would opt to work for themselves rather than re-enter the job market if they were made redundant. |
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| April 8, 2009 |
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The size of SMEs makes them well positioned to use new technology quickly and gain competitive advantage – if they know how. Here, Xenios Thrasyvoulou, CEO of business networking site PeoplePerHour, and SmallBusiness.co.uk provide some top tips on how to make a big impact on the net. |
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| April 2, 2009 |
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Looming lay-offs inspired the stockbroker to set up his own web business - and leap from 150,000 feet...
I spent two years at a small-cap brokerage, mainly advising on AIM stock. But with the firm about to go down, I was heading for redundancy, and I didn't want to wait for that. So I jumped ship last August before it sank. It turned out to be a wise move: the company soon went under. |
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| March 26, 2009 |
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A City worker who lost her job in the recession has begun a new career telling jokes about the "sleaze" of the Square Mile.
Thea Montgomerie-Anderson, 32, was made redundant from her £150,000 sales job at a banking IT company just before Christmas.
Now she does a stand-up routine about the risk-taking, lunchtime casual sex and heavy drinking she says dominates the City. |
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| March 25, 2009 |
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Seize the moment
1 “Going freelance” is often a euphemism for “lost my job”. But don't despair if you haven't researched your market, built up a list of clients and hired an accountant. Helen James, the founder of FreelanceUK.com, advises fledgeling freelancers simply to “fly with it”. “Ideally, we'd recommend a six-month buffer, but don't be deterred if you don't have that luxury. You can learn the essentials on the job.” |
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| March 4, 2009 |
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These are not jolly times, unless you happen to be a bailiff. But Britain remains a puritanical nation and while we pretended to enjoy the boom years, privately we know the gloom years will suit us better. Give us a Lottery win and we will soon be consumed with angst; give us a plough with some turnip seeds and suddenly it's Dunkirk all over again. |
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| March 1, 2009 |
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Thousands of workers are losing their jobs amid the deepening recession - but consumers are finding new and innovative ways to beat the squeeze. |
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| February 26, 2009 |
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I founded my website development business Greyhound Computing, in October 2007. It was daunting, but after working in the City for 10 years, I felt ready to leave the corporate lifestyle and become my own boss
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| February 26, 2009 |
| Xenios Thrasyvoulou |
Whilst we start the new year with a pretty grim economic outlook, it's worth remembering that some of the greatest fortunes have been built in times of adversity. Creative destruction - the business equivalent of nature's innate regenerative capacity - is what drives radical innovation.
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| February 13, 2009 |
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It's been said that out of adversity comes deep-rooted structural change.
2009 dawns on us yet with some bleak economic condtions. Yet it is also the year when an estimated 1.5billion people almost a quarter of the worlds's population will be frequent users of the internet. |
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| January 29, 2009 |
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Losing your job is devastating, but at least you know you're not alone as the number of unemployed climbs steadily towards 2m.
In fact, Cary Cooper, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University Management School, believes this is not a bad time to be made redundant.
'It is psychologically better to lose your job now rather than in more affluent times,' he says. 'It will still feel like a rejection but you can rationalise it by saying that it's the times in which we live.' |
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| January 8, 2009 |
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Whether it is a hatred of commuting, or the appeal of sitting at your computer in pyjamas, working from home has never been so popular. And with so much homeworking friendly technology now on the market, it has never been so easy. |
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| December 22, 2008 |
| Sri Carmichael |
Hundreds of City workers are choosing to leave the Square Mile and blaze their own path in freelance careers.
As redundancies mount in the financial services sector, many are choosing to jump before they are pushed, new figures show. Many more employees who have already lost their jobs have decided to work for themselves.
PeoplePerHour.com, which acts as a business services marketplace, has seen its membership across the country soar from 5,000 at the end of March to 16,000. |
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| December 5, 2008 |
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| November 15, 2008 |
| Nina Montagu-Smith |
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People who opt to work at home after losing their job have to consider tax, insurance and retirement provision. |
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| November 15, 2008 |
| Ben Sillis |
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Many of us want to work flexibly from home - but can you actually earn a living from the get-rich-quick schemes flooding your inbox? Ben Sillis spent a week online finding out. |
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| November 10, 2008 |
| Guy Guinan |
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Recent reports suggest that higher utility bills, food and mortgage costs have created a huge growth in employees looking for second incomes to beat the credit crunch. |
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| November 6, 2008 |
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Tech firms are preparing themselves for a bleak winter. Will innovation suffer?
The UK is facing its first recession since the far off days of the early 1990s, but for one sector in particular, memories of hard economic times are a good deal fresher. Rewind to 2001 and the collapse of the dotcom dream. Investment in IT projects dried up, job losses mounted, and the office blocks of the M4 corridor were suddenly characterised by clusters of To Let signs. Internet companies were particularly hard hit. Those job losses are back: Motorola, HP and Xerox all announced redundancy packages recently and the dotcoms look set to follow suit. The danger is that pessimism will begin to feed through to the investment community. |
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BBC Radio Cambridge interview with PeoplePerHour.com CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou |
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| October 28, 2008 |
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The credit crunch. A looming recession. Soaring fuel prices.
If the headlines are putting you off your breakfast, take heart - there are still reasons to smile. |
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| October 27, 2008 |
| Johanna Gornitzki |
With money getting tighter, a second job could give your income a boost. Johanna Gornitzki meets some women using their skills and hobbies to help ends meet.
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| October 26, 2008 |
| Ali Hussain |
Higher utility bills, food and mortgage costs mean many households need to find ways to boost their incomes.
Peopleperhour.com brings together those seeking extra work with small and medium-sized firms looking for short-term employees for particular projects.
Since March, the site has seen a 150% increase in membership to 12,500.
Employers post jobs and specify how much they are willing to pay. Potential employees then bid for the jobs, saying for how much they are willing to carry out the work. At the end of the “auction” the employer decides who to take on. |
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| October 21, 2008 |
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PeoplePerHour.com was founded in September 2007 by two Cambridge University graduates: CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou and CTO Simos Kitiris. In the words of Thrasyvoulou,”We’re a community of freelancers facilitating remote work; it allows companies of all sizes to outsource work. The freelancer gets rated and builds a profile – we provide a safe platform for that to happen.” |
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| October 7, 2008 |
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PeoplePerHour.com CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou interviewed on the Chris Evans show on BBC Radio 2 |
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| August 27, 2008 |
| Rosanna Spero |
Families are facing the tightest financial squeeze since the Seventies. Debt in many middleclass areas has soared with many people owing more than £53,000 according to credit reference agency Experian.
The average family's disposable income has fallen by £2,500 in a year and for many a second job might be the only answer. Here Rosanna Spero shows how you can help make ends meet... |
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| August 14, 2008 |
| Alex Morgan |
EVERYONE would like a bit more money to spend, but rising prices mean you probably have less to spare than ever.
With the cost of food, gas, electricity and petrol going up, half of all adults have had to use savings to cover essential bills this year. |
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| August 13, 2008 |
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PeoplePerHour.com founder and chief executive Xenios Thrasyvoulou on why outsourcing could be the answer to your all your business’ HR needs
Until recently, outsourcing was generally associated with large corporations establishing major business functions abroad. The media propagated the commonly-held perception of large companies outsourcing to cut costs and boost profit margins. |
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| August 10, 2008 |
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AS the credit crunch bites, small business owners are increasingly turning to freelance workers rather than employing permanent staff.
Last month, the Office of National Statistics reported that unemployment levels were at a 16-year high.
Experts say this is reflected in a trend for business owners to use freelancers as and when they need them because they are more flexible and less costly.
PeoplePerHour.com, a website where businesses post projects for temporary staff, said it has seen interest in using freelancers rise steadily in recent months.
Founder Xenios Thrasyvoulou says: 'Outsourcing is still mainly associated with multinationals farming parts of their business offshore, but we are now seeing an unprecedented level of outsourcing by SMEs across all disciplines.' |
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| July 30, 2008 |
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Freelance work is another flexible option. allowing you to tap into the skills you developed during your work career. This is something 54 year old Charles Crawford started doing this year. At the end of 2007 he retired from a 28 year career in the UK's diplomatic service which had seen him serving as an ambassador in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Poland.
"I wanted a change," he explains. "I took early retirement and we moved back to England where I am building up a number of freelance careers including training and coaching diplomats, mediating and writing.
One of the tools Charles uses to help him find work is PeoplePerHour.com. This website was set up by Xenios Thrasyvoulou in 2007 and uses some of the same principles as eBay. "If you're looking for freelance work you can upload your profile for free. Over time you'll build up a track record, in much the same way as on eBay. People post up the work they have on offer and you can bid for it, with the successful bidder being the person whose experience and track record fits best," explains Thrasyvoulou.
Seven months into freelancing, Charles has the following advice for anyone considering supplementing their income in a similar way. "Put the formalities such as the accounts in place first as this will save time," he says. "I'd also recommend setting up a website. Mine (charlescrawford.biz) has been very useful as a shop window." |
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| July 22, 2008 |
| Natasha Lomas |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. They just stay on...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 |
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A new online marketplace has launched...More >> |
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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 enough of your time to ensure success and not ru...More >> |
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