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I recently came across some interesting Upwork 2024 analytics and decided to share my observations. The study analyzed over 5 million projects posted on Upwork to identify current market trends, find out which projects offer the highest pay, and which niches are the easiest to fill. If you already have an agency on Upwork or are thinking about starting one, this guide might be helpful on your journey.

CEO of HR agency HR-Lab Yulia Pashchenko shared the story of hiring a specialist who refused to work on a schedule with two days off, demanding a third.

SEO expert Igor Shulezhko told a story about how an American company fired all Ukrainian developers and replaced them with Indians. This information interested the community: a discussion with 270+ commenters.

During his IT career, Mark Quinn went from being approached by Waymo, Apple, and Amazon with job offers to being unemployed and unable to attract the attention of any company. The IT guy lost his previous job to AI. At the same time, the technology helped him find a new job. Mark now holds a position in AI operations at Pearl, an AI search platform for professional services.

A former Google marketer is trying to find a new job in a world swept by AI, and he’s decided to get creative. He’s distributing homemade flyers offering $2,000 to anyone who can help him land a job.

Ukrainian IT professionals often refuse to cooperate with companies that require full presence in the office or a hybrid work format. It is understandable — during the war and Covid, the habit of working from home, without wasting time on the road, has become a familiar part of life. And today’s sleepless attacks due to enemy attacks and the possibility of being forcibly conscripted into the army at any moment while traveling to work do not contribute to specialists returning to the offices. Meanwhile, international tech giants have long been restoring the practice of working from offices, and those who do not agree to work away from home are simply fired. dev.ua asked top Ukrainian IT employers whether they require the presence of specialists in the office and in what format they currently offer cooperation to new employees.

Senior SEO Specialist Oleksandr Nebylytsia on LinkedIn wondered whether it is really necessary to gather the team at meetings every day.

On the website robota.ua, the web design agency Davydov Consulting opened a number of IT vacancies with a maximum salary of UAH 18,000 a few days ago.

Test tasks: to pay or not? This question among IT professionals and recruiters is almost Hamlet-like. Only recently, at the end of April, under the post of Business Operations Manager Yulia Rubanskaya, IT specialists were lively discussing whether it is necessary to pay extra for the completion of a test task if the recruiter offered the candidate some additional work, because she rated the test a «three», and there was still time before the announced deadline. In response, the candidate denied that this would be full-fledged work that should be paid. dev.ua decided to ask recruiters their opinion on the above situation, and also asked in which cases they see the point of compensating the cost of working time for candidates.