Freelance goes bigger
How Enterprises Benefit From Hiring Remote Teams
Bringing in a remote talent to fill in the role that requires specialized skills has become the new normal not only for small businesses and individuals, but also for large enterprises. You might be surprised to know that such giants as Amazon, Nike and Facebook have been actively engaging freelancers as a project workforce.
Partnering with individual freelancers and remote teams can be extremely useful:
- Companies can quickly fill the need of new employees when the business grows,
- HR can easily find a specialist to fulfill a specific project,
- Managers pay only for the service they require, and receive it on time,
- Entire companies can benefit greatly by choosing experts from around the globe.
Who has already gained value?
Together with the TPT team we will showcase large companies which search for and take on board talents to enhance their own competitiveness.
Nike
A multinational company producing sportswear and footwear. Nike has hired over 2,000 freelancers to execute projects in the areas of Design, Photography, Copywriting and Illustration. Designing the creative vision of Nike Basketball in San Francisco, recapping event of Nike air technology in Chicago, creating animation for social media and other projects all over the world were conducted and successfully completed by a freelance workforce, and are appreciated by Nike.
Shell
The global group of energy and petrochemical companies hires remote teams to get advice and create its short- and long-term development strategy, including marketing, business and product development.
The company employs freelancers for a number of purposes such as content writing, checking technical bugs and advertising. Recently Facebook has even created a Director of Remote Work” position to manage remote teams and achieve improvement in their remote workforce strategy.
Amazon
The world’s largest ecommerce corporation hires different freelancers for the positions of solutions architects and development managers.
Kelly Services
A staffing company, founded in the USA, now operating globally, recruits and places workers in various industries, including automotive, engineering and information technology.
This is not an exhaustive list of companies that hire individual freelancers and remote teams.
We are quite excited about further surveys of the freelance world! Stay tuned!
