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PeoplePerHour is a UK-based company that provides a website for the advertisement of freelance work. == History == Founded in 2005 by Xenios Thrasyvoulou and Simos Kitiris, the company has offices in London and New York. Its network consists of about 250,000 active users, of whom 180,000 are freelancers and 70,000 who are clients. The majority of clients using the services are small companies that do not want to hire a full-time professional resources.〔 〕 This type of online marketplace is also referred to as crowdsourcing – using a virtual network to outsource work.〔(Ramon Ray, Business Insider, 9 August 2012 )〕 There is some debate as to whether the emergence of this type of freelance marketplace is part of a longer-term structural change in the way that companies across the world manage their human resources.〔 Figures from the UK Office for National Statistics show that 358,000 more people aged 65 or over are currently working than was the case a decade ago.〔(Joanna Robinson, Daily Mail, 20 September 2012 )〕 Usage statistics from PeoplePerHour indicate that the number of retirees looking for work using the website has increased by 137 per cent during 2012.〔 == Reception == In August 2012, PeoplePerHour was named by the science and technology magazine, Wired UK as one of "Europe's 100 Hottest Startups of 2012".〔("Europe's 100 hottest startups 2012", Hugo Cox, Wired Magazine, 15 August 2012 )〕 In 2012 its 50-person engineering department relocated to Athens.〔(Index Ventures Raises $442 Million in New Fund ) by Mark Scott, New York Times〕 One of the major investors in PeoplePerHour's is Index Ventures, which gave the company £2M ($3.2M) dollars in 2012.〔〔(PeoplePerHour Secures $3.2M From Index Ventures, New Hires, New iOS App ) by Mike Butcher, TechCrunch〕 Mike Volpi has named PeoplePerHour among the three "most underrated companies" in the Index's portfolio.〔(Invest in Bankrupt Europe? Sure! Clean Tech? Oh, Hell No. ) by Sarah Lacy, pando.com〕 In its previous seed round the company had raised approximately £425k.〔(Index Ventures invests in PeoplePerHour as business flows East to West )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PeoplePerHour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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