Indian freelancers join PeoplePerHour

PeoplePerHour.com – the online outsourcing marketplace for businesses – has seen an increase in the number of freelancers being hired by small businesses.

Since,the launch of PeoplePerHour.com in UK in 2007,followed by its launch in US and in India earlier this year,the site has a community of more than 1,10,000 registered freelancers. Those based in India have gone up to more than 15,000 with an average hourly rate of US $16. This brings India’s share to 14% of the total global pie,which is growing at the rate of 20 %.

India ranks first among all the Asian countries in terms of registered freelancers.

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Commenting on global virtual business trend,Mr. Xenios Thrasyvoulou,PeoplePerHour.com’s founder and CEO said,“Businesses across the globe have discovered that they can access top talent from the global pool and import best practices in an affordable way by using freelancers.”

Prasenjit Nandi,a web design and SEO freelance service provider based in Kolkata,said “I’m an experienced SEO freelancer and using Peopleperhour.com with great success.”