James Knight recently made an unorthodox career move for a 27-year-old coder: quitting a well-paid job writing software for Google to go freelance. No more catered lunches, gold-plated benefits or ...

Bloomberg reports that Uber has started farming out independent contractors for data-labeling services as well as coders-for-hire. Uber describes its new Scaled Solutions division as a platform of ...

In any industry, it’s hard to evaluate your skills if you’re self-taught. When are your skills good enough to start freelancing? Self-taught coder Joyce Akiko answers this question, particularly for ...

Americans are diving into freelancing — 38% performed freelance work in 2023, according to Upwork's December 2023 Freelance Forward survey. While some are freelancing full-time, many people are also ...

Max Nanis’s website prominently features about two dozen head shots of the skinny, scruffy 22-year-old Southern Californian with his shirt off. At the top of his “About” page, there’s a personalized ...

Freelancer.com, the job outsourcing and freelance IT worker marketplace, has made another acquisition: it has bought vWorker, a job site for freelance coders and other tech professionals. Terms of the ...

The only good thing the COVID-19 pandemic brought is the introduction of flexibility in the traditional workspace. The pandemic forced companies, small and large, to adopt remote work, simultaneously ...

Data shows that in the current COVID-19 landscape, half of companies are considering layoffs as a long-term operational strategy. Freelancers may be best positioned to pick up the work. The job market ...

The advent of AI models that can code has led tech CEOs to make some bold claims about the demise of the human software engineer. So-called “vibe coding” allows anyone to type in their idea for an app ...