In A Tight Economy, Outsourced Developers On oDesk Work 100,000 Hours A Week

The economy may still be trying to pick itself up, but one beneficiary of tighter budgets is outsourcing marketplace oDesk . Web developers and software engineers looking for project work can find jobs on oDesk, and employers can post jobs. Workers download PC-monitoring software which lets employers keep track of exactly how long they are on the job, even if it is in their pajamas at 3 AM. As a result, oDesk publishes aggregate data on the "oConomy" and how many collective hours a week are being billed through its service. In July, the hours worked on oDesk surpassed 100,000 a week for the first time, and $65 million worth of work was posted on the site.