Amit Bakshi at oDesk summarized some interesting trends on oDesk, a platform for outsourcing to freelancers and small businesses. Of note:
*The country with the most service providers (and the highest average feedback) is the US
*Philippines is the fastest-growing country on oDesk
*India has the largest number of software and web providers, categories that have 3x the wages of most other kinds of work on oDesk.
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thanks for sharing this wonderful report. This is awesome.
This is interesting but I am far more interested in finding out why Pakistan, despite being one of the top 2 in Value For Money services (the other being Phillipines), has such a low average rate percentile of only 64?
I feel that providers from some countries are being manipulated (maybe a strong word but that’s how I feel) by buyers on oDesk. What happens usually is that most buyers prefer native speaker of English and try and hire people/firms from countries like the U.S. These providers of course find it impossible to deliver a 150 articles of 500+ words each within a week’s time so they further outsource in small batches to other providers.
Providers who bid the least get the job. An excellent work is done by ‘em (in most cases) for a very meager amount. The original provider gets all the accolades and the money. Hallelujah for them.
Question is: why do buyers not realize that? Why not hire these people in the first place for a decent amount?
I am not complaining for myself. I a doing fine. Just that after reading this report on oDesk about providers from Phillipines and Pakistan being top of the list for value for money I got to wonder why these people were settling for so little.
Maybe oDesk could help in some way. I dunno.