Going beyond outsourcing and virtual workers.
By Sandi Smith, CPA
Accountant’s Accelerator
The days are long gone when the only way to build your business was by hiring full-time employees. Now there are so many more choices. Many employees are interested in part-time work. Some prefer to work virtually, which frees a company up from being limited to local talent. And then there’s crowdsourcing, a whole new way to tap into talented labor on a project-by-project basis.
Crowdsourcing is a special way to outsource a task. With outsourcing, you know exactly who will be doing the task. With crowdsourcing, you don’t; people just show up and contribute. Wikipedia calls it “distributed problem-solving.”
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