Upwork

Having problems with Upwork? Erik Manuevo may be to blame. There has been some major policy shifts such as if even your employer get's flagged (if they did something wrong or not), you will be banned as well :(. ...

Erik Manuevo seems to have failed at other companies and now failing at Upwork.com

Upwork suspended my account for no good reason, quoting that I am working outside of upwork with clients. Infact if the client itself is non responsive where is our fault. Stupid behavior shown by the support team quoting no need to contact them as account is suspended.

Upwork is a good place to start earning. They help us find the right client that fits our niche. It also features security at safeness in terms of payments from the client. Overall I would recommend this to the ones who lost their jobs due to the pandemic.

This an awful site. Professional get paid very little money. On top of that, may unqualified "professionals" do the job you are qualified to do. Also, clients know that they can get away with paying very little money to real professionals. Translations for 1 cent per word, language classes for 2 dollars, etc. I call that a scam. Also, the people of Upwork, if you don't get clients they "hide" your profile, so, they will punish you if you don't sell your services at the lowest price. Go and work in your local café, probably where you will earn more.

I love using Upwork because as a military spouse, it allows me to find virtual and remote jobs and roles that I can take with me when we move due to the needs of the military. There are so many opportunities to choose from too. I love the peace of mind that Upwork provides through it's services to it's freelancers and those who are posting jobs. I would highly recommend using Upwork to find your next role!

I sent refund request, that has been accepted by freelancer.

I have filled a statement of work etc, specified i get a refund if something goes wrong. Freelancer did accept the refund request of mine, however since they do not have money on their account i have to wait till they do top up their account, which obviously never going to happen.

What da f**k is refund request for if not to get your m*********g money back?

I was a top rated freelancer for a long time, until I got a bogus review from an unorganized client. This put me right under the top rated program upwork now has, and I stopped getting views. I contacted customer service, but they were no help as usual. Customer service has always been a joke, and their time tracker has always had ongoing problems. The fee structure needs to be worked on, also. If they listened to the community and upped their minimum of $3/hour, the site would be much better and effective for everyone involved. I left recently and couldn't be happier.

As a former Elance customer, and unwilling Upwork customer, I have to say that it has gotten expensive, less reliable and with no customer service at all. They seem to have no protection against exploitation; almost encouraging it. If you're not active, your profile automatically goes "private" so no one can find you -- just awesome!

First, they take 20% of your earnings. If you also file your earnings when doing your taxes, remember it's another 30% (in Canada). So essentially working on UpWork you are making half of whatever your rate is. (20+30 = 50% lost)

Second, I had a client hire me, start a contract, then go immediately unresponsive. After months of trying to engage them, I decided to end the contract. However, since I ended the contract as a freelancer, UpWork decided to penalize my profile and drop my profile success score by 75% even though it was not my fault that the client decided to fall off the face of the earth. After contacting UpWork, I just got one templated reply after the other.

I have very mixed experiences with upwork, no good ones for SEO, some lovely ones for a marketing adviser and photoshopping of images, but terrible for website design. Am in the middle of a dispute now, the designer was supposed to do design templates for 3 specific pages, and the layouts, looked great. However his integrating was and still is a mess, affecting text and layout on all the pages, to the extent, that I am now having to spend hours undoing and re-doing all the work. And the upwork view..." it appears that no clear violation of our terms has been made"

So sure, use them, but you are entirely alone if it goes wrong.

I just used Upwork for 2 weeks.

I have hired 3 people on there and they were good at their work.

But Upwork suspended the freelancer's account and my account.

They didn't give any clear explanation about their action.

I connected with their 5 support agents and all of them just said "WAIT, WAIT, WAIT".

I couldn't get their response for over a week.

I have asked the help from their FB page and they blocked me out in there as well.

Just lost $500.

Scam website did their job well!

Stay away from it.

You can find some legit gigs on here, but you have to be careful because there are a lot of scams. I've started using prodigitalnetwork.com, which I like because it is solely based out of the US. You don't have to worry about being out bided by someone in a different country, plus it's just a clearer site. Less is more.

I work as a freelancer since April 2016, and it's amazing how Upwork can help connect clients and freelancers on projects. It's not always simple to find a project as a freelancer, but it has nothing to do with Upwork, it has to do with the way we market our skills. That's where Upwork helps a lot as well - with the new catalog function and the new Upwork interface, it is done in a few clicks. The Connect system is fair compared to other platform where the membership is expensive. It is secure. The support team is always here to help if necessary. Well - give it a try, and you'll catch what I mean.

Upwork gave me hope when I had my first client. Being a full time mom who left the corporate world, I searched for wfh set up that will allow me to help my husband finance our everyday expenses without having the necessity to leave our home! A kind of relief, indeed!

In November 2016, I heard about Upwork first time and joined. Even though, It was long way to get hired on my first project in Feb 2020, I am very grateful for everything that Upwork provides me as opportunities.
Firstly, I am getting paid higher than my local jobs by advertising myself in high-income regions of the world.
Secondly, I am very happy to work with my favorite coffee shop.
Third, I really believe that It is the most important to have experience in order to get hired and deliver great projects on Upwork. Freelancers really need to know what they organizations need related to their industry. But, at the end of everything, the only thing that will make me odd on Upwork would be my specialty, skillsets combining with my experience and motivated mindset to tackle the rigorous project.
I am very grateful that Upwork is being a part of my life.

I have a lot to thank Upwork for. The platform gave me a great foundation to start my business. I still use the platform to receive project requests, some of which are irrelevant, some of which are exciting, and a lot in the middle.
I appreciate it doesn't work for everyone, but it certainly worked for me. After one year, I now rank as one of the most reputable freelancers in my industry.

When the pandemic came due to Covid lots of individuals all over the world has the experience to be jobless. Because many establishments shut down their business and can't longer manage it due to the financial effect that Covid brings in our society until even right now. Upwork is one of the main bridges to millions of talent who is believing that they can have a job despite what happened to us.

I've been using Upwork for a few months and I'm enjoying the work I am getting through them. The set-up is great, from bidding for work, to getting paid. No issues or problems at all! I'm free to choose how many hours I want to work, so its really flexible too. I also love it that I'm connecting with people around the world through the work I'm getting.

Great Experience with upwork clients as hourly and also fixed price jobs. I advise to new freelancers to recommend Upwork it's better and
Co-operative cs dept for freelance service providers
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I am middle-size company director and I hired near 100 freelancers on upwork.com to do my projects. One day when I had to review job & pay, I received message from upwork that I "send too much private messages", and that I am locked to send more ones. By theirs own rules, I have to use theirs private messages and not email or Skype to communicate with freelancers, and now they say that I use too much messages... are they crazy? I could not to contact people and pay them money, so near 100 freelancers didn't receive theirs money because of upwork crazy rules. The for sure don't need big clients who honestly hire freelancers and don't propose to speak via email and pay via PayPal. They prefer actually to force me to not use theirs expensive internal payment and theirs buggy messages and to work with freelancers directly.

Upwork hires criminals. I discovered this when I found that one of their freelancers has 3 convictions of violent crimes. UpWork responded that they do not discriminate and what a freelancer does with their personal time is not their business. However, some freelancers meet face-to-face and could be using Upwork to cause harm or commit more crimes. UpWork has no idea if any of the freelancers they "connect" with others are violent offenders, predators, sex offenders, pedophiles, etc. because they feel they have no duty to let you know this information.

I would never recommend them.

I started working on Upwork, starting from its oDesk days. I have worked on the site for the past 5 years mainly as a translator, but also on other projects as well. It is a very good site for freelancers, with reputable clients, comforting Escrow method and payment protection policies. The website is also easy to maneuver through unlike some others where it gets very complicated you just don't want to start working there.

Want to give minus points to upwork. Tried everything. But they have created a mindset they they won't allow the new creative people to enter on upwork site. And thats really shamful... they are no one to say the freelancers that we are somewhere less from other freelancers working on upwork. You haven't even checked yet so how come u can justify anyone form by simply seeing the skills.