On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/08/2014 02:30 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > > Can anyone explain the relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk? > > The short of it: oDesk is indeed roughly the same kind of job board as > freelancer.com and its ilk. The foundation is simply a client, and uses > it only to pay its contractors and (most of)* their non-US workforce; > and AFAIK never just contract out from postings. > > Contractors input work hours, WMF pays oDesk, oDesk sends monies to > contractor. The system itself is a little shitty and quite a bit > expensive, but considerably less so than it would be to set up legal > entities able to directly pay people outside the US as local employees > (including the horrible mess that it actually /is/ to have employees in > other countries rather than contract out). > > -- Marc > > * some staffers instead work for a business entity that /itself/ > contracts out to the WMF in which case it works a bit differently > because then oDesk is no longer necessary as a middle man. > > Marc said everything I was going to say. This was my experience with oDesk as a US-based contractor as well. The contracting process was done like the normal hiring process and completely apart from oDesk. oDesk was simply used to input hours and receive payment. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
