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* GSV was also supported by retained clients. Upwork onboarded 4,000 of them to its core client roaster. | * GSV was also supported by retained clients. Upwork onboarded 4,000 of them to its core client roaster. | ||
* Some clients pulled back spend due to macro economic factors. | * Some clients pulled back spend due to macro economic factors. | ||
* Began to exceed "pre-crisis levels on numerous top line activity metrics such as client registrations and new job post in early to mid April." | |||
* Entered into partnership with Citrix and that grants them opportunity to land its clients. | |||
* Product sizes holds steady but seeing a shift in favor of high value work. | |||
* Approximately 80% of the work in the platform comes from categories conisdered as essential or somewhat essential. | |||
* The premium for having workers from the Top 15 most expensive cities in U.S is 40% compared to other geographies. | |||
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* Seismic trends towards remote and flexible work continue to work in Upwork's favor as illustrated in their Fourth Annual Future Workforce report. | * Seismic trends towards remote and flexible work continue to work in Upwork's favor as illustrated in their Fourth Annual Future Workforce report. | ||
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* Saw a huge global demand for technical talent. | * Saw a huge global demand for technical talent. | ||
* Debuted Upwork Expert-Vetted Talent. | * Debuted Upwork Expert-Vetted Talent. | ||
* CFO Brian Kinion seems to have been fired? "I think there's little concern about the transition and maybe just talk through this, from your perspective, that'd be helpful?" Brent Thill from Jefferies asked. "I haven't decided what's next. I'm going to take some time over with my families. And I'll be very good and happy Upwork shareholder as well, " Kinion responded. "I think Brian's been an incredible partner and I think we've been having a lot of conversations since I stepped into the CEO role about the direction of the Company and our focus right now on really driving strategic growth priorities. And I'm excited that Jeff is really bringing in a strategic lens to financial leadership," Hayden Brown added. | |||
* Anticipating the economy to get worse in Q3 due to 30 million unemployed Americans, stimulus programs largely dried up and no forthcoming from small businesses. | |||
* Used cost-savings from shift to remote work to drive brand awareness. | |||
* Increased search speed resuts by 10% . | |||
* Matching of talent with clients is based on talen's profile and how their matching algorithms consume and process profile information. | |||
* More than 50% of hiring managers feel the shift to remote work has gone better-than-expected. | |||
* 20% or 30% of CFOs believe remote work will be part of a number of jobs going forward. | |||
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