Have a great and successful day!

it has nothing to do with the fact of employment, I write and make money then my husband makes thousands a month, I do not even need to work sweetie, I did it to save money in our account, that was all

I have links and proof that they allow these postings to go through

25 cents an hour, I do not know how they sleep at night

as long as you make your 33 an hour susanne that is all you care about, it has nothing to do with unhappy with their service, I get paid to write now I really do not care, I care about those poor people making less then poverty, as you close your eyes to it so you do not feel guilt over taking money from them

I like it and i really want it

Glad to see you offer it though.

in an earlier web worker post,
http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/02/26/web-work-in-the-era-of-free/
“Unless $12 an hour is an attractive rate for you, it’s time to bail out of such commodity activities.”

$12 an hour for programming is a good deal in India, Bulgaria, etc. For US coders, not so good. I can make that much as a janitor at my church, without having to install a spybot on my computer and have every minute of my day monitored.

First, not ALL the time I bill clients is spent at the computer–making this a flawed system for me. Then, there’s the whole privacy thing. I’m not going to agree for someone to take intervalled snapshots of my computer doings–and risk exposing information they’re not supposed to be privy to–just so my client can feel secure that I’m actually doing work?

In my mind, this sort of system would seem to promote the same distrust between clients and freelancers that exists between bosses and their employees. (“I’ve got to ’supervise’ what you do, to make sure it’s getting done.”)

We take privacy very seriously and oDeskTeam has a number of privacy features built in. For instance, oDeskTeam will show you a balloon notification (e.g., a task tray pop-up like the one you might get if someone pings you on Skype) whenever it takes a screenshot. You can discard the screenshot before it is uploaded to oDesk if you wish. You can even delete screenshots from your oDesk work diary after upload if needed. Many of these settings are configurable, so you can configure a work environment that works for you.

@AaCc – To clarify, it’s free for providers to join oDesk and free to apply to jobs. It’s also free to post jobs. oDesk only charges if you earn money. We keep 10% of any compensation that is earned through the system.

@Rod – We agree that being able to verify remote work and track time is differentiated and oDesk is the only service that brings that capability. oDesk has also innovated in a number of other important ways. Some examples:

**We are the only solution that guarantees payment to providers for hourly work
**Other services may offer skills tests, but oDesk has invested in test quality at an entirely different level. See our blog post on this topic: http://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/01/power-of-community-feedback/
**As far as I know, oDesk is the only service that offers free skills tests. Other services charge as much as $25/test. We want all of our providers to have a chance to validate their skills, so we don’t charge for the privilege of taking a test
**While it is true that other services now support Payoneer, oDesk was the Payoneer pioneer :) …we were the first company to offer remote workers access to their earnings via a debit card
**oDesk is very transparent. We expose an unparalleled amount of data about marketplace activities in the oConomy. This information helps both buyers and providers optimize their activities on oDesk.

Best of all, we think the best innovations from oDesk are yet to come. We have several new announcements coming in the first half of this year that we believe will again be game-changing for this space.

Best,

Brian
oDesk

The screen shot feature of the tracking software is a bit worrisome. What if out of 2 hours straight working on a project, I checked my email for 10 seconds and a sensitive email for another client was screenshot and sent? I don’t mind a tracker tracking my general activity – what programs I have open, how often I’m using the mouse/keyboard, etc., but it could be a real privacy issue.