PeoplePerHour has just celebrated its 3rd birthday in the den. The tech-savvy team gathered in the PPH London headquarters for some signature margaritas and yummy birthday cupcakes, but of course a start-up’s birthday just wouldn’t be the same without a ping-pong tournament to get even the geekiest of our geeks up and running for a [...]
Economy, Employment, Freelance Articles, General News
Tory Johnson of abc NEWS talks to PeoplePerHour.com’s CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou who explains the increasing importance of high-quality freelancers as more and more businesses take the freelance option for the long-run. Through abc NEWS, PeoplePerHour.com reaches out to an audience of 42 million all over the world, proving its establishment as a fundamental player in [...]
Economy, Freelance Articles, General News
PeoplePerHour.com has now published the 4th of a series of Small Business Reviews, exposing UK council spend on third-party website agencies as “extreme and unnecessary”. The latest report, entitled “How the public sector is overspending”, analyzes and compares private and public sector spend on Web Services. The following results are based on our latest survey [...]
Economy, Entrepreneurship, General News
Rising fuel prices will hit small firms hard and could cost thousands of jobs across the UK, comparison site Constructaquote.com has warned. Last week, it was revealed that petrol prices across the country had hit a record average high of £1.20 a litre. Experts have since warned that the price of diesel could also be [...]
Employment, Entrepreneurship, General News
Yesterday, 24th of March, Alistair Darling announced new measures of support for the UK Economy’s backbone – the Small Business. These measures not only include £45bn of surplus lending for SMEs (Small and Medium-sized businesses) from state-controlled banks Lloyds and RBS, but also the establishment of a capital growth fund which is to provide investment [...]
Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles, General News, New Features
Thanks to all those of you who took our previous 2009 Small Business Survey, PeoplePerHour.com has succeeded in producing a number of insightful Small Business Reviews found on our newly launched PPH Economy », all of which have helped us understand the small business sector, giving us the opportunity to promote the importance of remote, [...]
Freelance Articles, General News
The webcast below is hosted by the PCG (the representative body for freelancers, contractors and consultants in the UK) to mark National Freelancers Day.
The feature was centered on two of our providers – Edward Moss and Zoe Smith - with a short commentary from our founder in-between.
There was an interesting article about ‘The Future of Work’ in Time Magazine this week. Seth Godin, author of Small is the New Big, contributed some particularly insightful points. Godin describes a future in 5 or 10 years, where businesses will employ only a few essential employees and outsource the rest of their work. A [...]
We have been collecting feedback about the design of the site for a while now; both through the messages/emails we get and also by proactively contacting as many of our users as possible to get feedback. With that in mind, we have now launched a new, cleaner design that will hopefully address most of the [...]
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