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Nigeria
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Financial Freedom
November 22, 2020

Upwork has given me the avenue to meet many nice clients that are enthusiastic to pay for the skills I offer. This has given me the chance to attain the financial freedom I so desire. Working on upwork is safe and the platform is easy to use.

Date of experience: November 22, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
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This platform was working well for my freelancer, so she suggested I sign up for it and hire her through there instead of Fivver. I switched platforms and my account was immediately suspended for violation of service terms. I did no such thing and was not even given the opportunity to dispute their decision. To top it off they suspended my account and now I can't delete it. They have all of my information, including my financial information and are refusing to remove it from their site. I will be contacting the BBB about them. What a horrible company. They must not like money.

Date of experience: March 21, 2020
Italy
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Of all the freelancer platforms out there, Upwork is certainly the best. Thanks to the many and different daily job offers, to the certainty of meeting only top professionals, and to a team always supporting every need of its community, Upwork has been able to demonstrate that freelancing is a serious thing and a true lifestyle for creatives from all over the world. Obviously there are many things that could be improved, since generally speaking it's always possible to do better, but the changes over the years have been many and each of these has brought more and more benefits to all the clients and freelancers who meet every day on Upwork with the aim of giving life to projects of all kinds.

Date of experience: June 13, 2020
Bulgaria
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A great opportunity
August 1, 2020

Upwork is a great workplace platform where you can find a job. Upwork is a great opportunity for everyone. However, there are some businesses who try only to find a cheap workforce. The service of Upwork is very good and safe.

Date of experience: July 31, 2020
TW
3 reviews
18 helpful votes
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When I keyed in my credit card number to deposit, They said " they wanna verify my credit card and took away USD 10 dollar, then tell me my card is false. "
Then never pay back the money to me after 10 days
(My card is 100% available and real, because I paypal money to people with this credit card everyday and amazon and...)

Date of experience: May 14, 2016
Washington
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Not worth it!
January 21, 2020

Defiantly not worth it!

So if you use the time tracker, the freelancers can just use as much time as they want and you pay the hourly rate no matter what they do and how much they decide to use.

They say they have a low activity policy but this is a lie because they do not do anything about very low activity ratings.

The support does nothing as well.

If you leave a review and the freelance does not like it and is top rated, they can have it removed so are they really top rated lol.

Date of experience: January 21, 2020
Senegal
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Upwork is a company that I find particularly correct in what it offers for the freelancer like me. I like the harmony that emerges when I work there and the client and freelancer relationship is very good. It is a company that offers to all those who want to get into freelance.

Date of experience: March 2, 2021
Jamaica
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Upwork blocked my account with 1200USD inside of it and told me to provide ID verification. I did and they told me that they are not able to verify my government-issued driver's license. Their phone support is rubbish they told me they can't do anything. What kind of assurance are you providing is you hold on to person money and not allowing them to withdraw it. This soo stupid

Date of experience: August 19, 2019
California
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Freelancer website
February 7, 2021

Upwork is a friendly freelancer site for both clients and freelancers. You don't have to worry about you done the job but not getting paid or you paid but you don't get the work done. Upwork will stay in the middle and get things right.

Date of experience: February 6, 2021
Malaysia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I am truly disappointed that my application did not go through. Not because I did not qualify, but because the website/company was not transparent enough from the beginning to make it clear that there was a possibility of not being accepted as a member. I thought that the submission was a checking process to see if we were real candidates. I dont appreciate having to give my private information and picture to a company that had these conditions. It would have been more honest on their part to have screened the career quota from the beginning. I feel that the Upwork site is just phishing for data because even if I close my account, they will still have my data. This is very disconcerting.

Date of experience: November 8, 2017
India
1 review
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I lost my job because of pandemics.
I search a way to work from home and someone suggest me to do freelancing.
I try many websites but they could not help but i got a site name upwork.com its a great website.
I get many projects there

Date of experience: November 22, 2020
Costa Rica
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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If you pay Upwork to see the bids made from other workers, there are so many workers from impoverished countries so the "low-balling" of bids, causes very little money to be made, if you're even chosen.

Date of experience: September 18, 2018
Egypt
1 review
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UpWork is a great platform to manage work and business, I'm pleasure with great efforts for upwork team to make it a good place for clients and freelancers, they always enhance and upgrade the work environment

Date of experience: September 1, 2020
India
1 review
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Freelancing heaven
March 24, 2021

Awesome experience of using Upwork... we all have through tough times due to Covid... lost my job. But thanks to Upwork I have found work and confidence to get back with my life... highly recommended.

Date of experience: March 24, 2021
Australia
1 review
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Brilliant company
May 26, 2020

Upwork provides a great service and is a win win for client and freelancer. The client finds the most suitable freelancer for their job and the freelancer gets work. Freelancers scan available work offers and then bid for the job. This should lead to an interview either via Upwork messages, a skype or a mobile call. With the random screen shots taken when the freelancer is working on the clients accounting system, the client can be confident the freelancer is working on the job when they get the Upwork invoice and the freelancer gets paid weekly. When the job is finished, the client should leave a reference and as good references build up, the freelancer gets invitations to work on new client jobs which in my case led to more and more work, a considerable number of regular clients and I have done a lot more one off jobs..

Date of experience: May 26, 2020
Pakistan
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I am a professional accountant and Bookkeeper and j just started freelancing on upwork and I think it's worlds greatest freelancing platform. There is lot of opportunities that upwork provide us freelancers with and it's a great platform.

Date of experience: November 18, 2020
Michigan
1 review
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This is a great site for freelancers to find job opportunities,
It is easy to use and the customer device is great.
Payment processing and receipt for income are easy to access.
I would highly recommend this site to anyone looking for freelancing work.

Date of experience: December 19, 2020
India
1 review
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I have been using the Upwork since 2014. It is the best platform for both business owners and freelancers. This platform helps to connect best talent for your business. Highly recommended Upwork for any and every online business. I love you Upwork.

Date of experience: October 8, 2020
Spain
1 review
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I am a writer of novels and in 2020 I had some troubles to survive only by my book sales, because of the Corona-Crisis. Thank god I saw an article about Upwork. I signed up and since this moment my problems disappeared because through Upwork I found work as a german language copywriter and content creator.
The platform works just amazing and I could not be happier to have joined Upwork
Eduard Freundlinger

Date of experience: December 17, 2020
India
1 review
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If you are registered with Upwork than surely you are going to earn especially It is an industry which is working in this COVID pandemic. And Upwork gives you the platform to showcase your skills and by completing tasks you can earn the money which you have asked for so so no wrong negotiation as well you do not need to take part in any unwanted marketing and lead generation stuff as its project market place. It's like do fishing in the sea which is full of fishes.

Date of experience: October 8, 2020

Overview

Upwork has a rating of 2.3 stars from 2,122 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Upwork most frequently mention customer service, credit card and job success. Upwork ranks 7th among Freelancing sites.

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