The next wave of British exports is in the making.

Here’s some interesting insight that we recently unearthed at PeoplePerHour.

In the past year we saw a doubling in the amount of time UK freelancers sell their services abroad. Doubling! That’s in a time when the UK is struggling to find its new export economy.

Think about this. A nation whose history dates back to colonialism. A nation which pioneered industrialisation and was sitting at the helm of the industrial world not that long ago.

Imperialism gave way to Industrialism, which then gave way to financial services. Whatever that means. And we all know what happened.

But that’s dwindling following the financial meltdown. So politicians, economists and policy makers galore are asking “what next”. (or should be!)

Well, guess what. We are witnessing a blossoming economy for middle class Brits and nobody knows it. Not your Oxford-educated bankers (gosh a Cambridge grad gave Oxford a plug, that’s a first) or Industrialists. No. your average Joe Blogs next door.continue reading »

We are about to overtake Ford Motor company in workforce size!

What I find most remarkable about what we do at PeoplePerHour is giving people real access. That what the internet does through and through one would argue, and its true, but think about the impact of that for a tiny business just starting off

Because of the internet and innovations like PeoplePerHour, a one man band just starting off now has access to a workforce of near 325,000 business. Just a mouse click away

To put this into perspective that’s 2k less than Ford Motor company, a company founded in 1903 and  has – amongst other achievements – commercialized the car!  No small feat by any measure of the imagination J

Or seen otherwise – that’s 15k more than Tesco: the largest retailer in the UK with an annual turnover over £40bn!

Isn’t that truly amazing? How a company of the size of 1 can have more people readily available to work for it, from Day 1. Think of what Tesco had to go through to get there!:)

That’s what’s truly transformational and disruptive about what we do and why we have full conviction that we are at the beginning of a new era for business, for entrepreneurs and for talent the world over.