Upwork Recognized as Market Leader in Ardent Partners 2021 Digital Staffing Marketplaces Technology Advisor Report
July 26 2021 - 12:46PM
Business Wire
Leading analyst report highlights industry’s
largest talent network, marketplace talent quality, and flexibility
and scale of Upwork Enterprise solutions and services
Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that
connects businesses with independent talent, today announced that
the company has been selected as a Market Leader in the 2021
Digital Staffing Marketplaces Technology Advisor report from
notable contingent workforce management, talent management, and
staffing analyst firm Ardent Partners.
According to the report: “Utilization of digital and on-demand
staffing technology solutions has increased more than 700 percent
since 2015. As we proceed through a global pandemic, an uncertain
corporate landscape has placed a premium on finding solutions that
can drive alignment between dynamic enterprise requirements and
available, vetted, and skilled talent. Enter ‘digital staffing
marketplaces’ that can enable hiring managers to tap into talent
pools and on-demand talent networks while also supporting direct
sourcing initiatives.”
The Digital Staffing Marketplaces Technology Advisor report is
designed to help procurement, HR, human capital and talent
acquisition executives navigate the digital recruitment and talent
marketplace landscape, and this year evaluated 12 digital staffing
marketplaces against both solution strength and provider strength
criteria. Market Leaders are providers with universal strength
across their offering matched with an ability to execute at the
highest level.
Upwork’s position as a Market Leader is based on Ardent
Partners’ assessment of its usability, solution functionality,
completeness of offering, future solution strategy, technology
adoption, company presence and ability to execute, as well as
company focus and vision. Specifically, the report points to
Upwork’s industry-leading talent network, powerful end-to-end
workforce program management platform and Upwork Enterprise
solution that offers robust compliance and risk mitigation.
“Upwork has long been a household name in the digital staffing
industry due to its mature offerings and longstanding strengths in
providing businesses with real-time access to talent,” said report
author Christopher J. Dwyer, Senior Vice President of Research at
Ardent Partners and Managing Director of the Future of Work
Exchange. “In addition to a powerful end-to-end workforce
management solution, Upwork is an industry-leading ‘work
marketplace’ that enables enterprises with a truly agile
workforce.”
“We see Ardent Partners’ selection of Upwork as a Market Leader
as clear validation of our ability to serve customers on both sides
of our work marketplace,” said Upwork Senior Vice President of
Enterprise Eric Gilpin. “As the report mentions, ‘Upwork is
synonymous with digital and on-demand staffing due to the
longstanding breadth of [our] platform and marketplace solutions,’
and we look forward to continuing to expand our vision, solution
offerings and services to create value and scale for businesses and
independent talent alike.”
The recognition follows Upwork’s launch of Talent Scout™, which
connects organizations with pre-vetted expert talent selected from
the Upwork platform by specialized Upwork recruiters, as well as
enhancements to the Upwork Enterprise offering and the company’s
introduction of the work marketplace category.
To learn more and to read the full Ardent Partners 2021 Digital
Staffing Marketplaces Technology Advisor report, visit:
https://www.upwork.com/mc/documents/Ardent-Partners2021-Digital-Staffing-Marketplaces-Technology-Advisor.pdf.
About Upwork
Upwork is the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses
with independent talent. We serve everyone from one-person startups
to 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform
that enables companies and freelancers to work together in new ways
that unlock their potential. Our talent community earned over $2.3
billion on Upwork in 2020 across more than 10,000 skills, including
website & app development, creative & design, customer
support, finance & accounting, consulting, and operations.
Learn more at www.upwork.com and join us on LinkedIn, Twitter,
Facebook, and Instagram.
About Ardent Partners
Ardent Partners is a research and advisory firm focused on
defining and advancing the supply management strategies, processes,
and technologies that drive business value and accelerate
organizational transformation within the enterprise.
Ardent Partners actively covers the supply management solutions
marketplace and produces research to help business decision-makers
understand the technology landscape and identify the best-fit
solution(s) for their specific needs. We believe our team’s
first-hand experience evaluating, developing, packaging, deploying,
and using supply management solutions on behalf of enterprises in
the Global 2000 and public sector makes us eminently qualified to
advise our clients to make smart decisions in this area.
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