Startups Use Gig Economy to Outsource Jobs

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Young tech companies at the RocketSpace hub are using gig platforms to outsource work. Photo courtesy of RocketSpace

By Sam Harnett, KQED News Fix

The business tactics of outsourcing work and offshoring jobs were once reserved for large tech corporations like Oracle, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard. Now, thanks to the growing gig economy, even the smallest startups are in on the action.

Tyson Quick is the CEO of Instapage. It’s a new tech company in San Francisco, but it’s not your stereotypical Bay Area tech startup run out of a garage by college dropouts. In fact, much of the company is actually not in the Bay Area at all.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

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