Lifted, an Upwork Company

Lifted, an Upwork Company, builds a unified platform that helps enterprises source, contract, manage and pay any type of contingent worker anywhere in the world. The product is designed as a single, seamless solution spanning the full lifecycle of contingent labour, covering independent contractors, staff augmentation and full outsourcing programmes. Technical work centres on a workforce management platform, contractor management, global payments, compliance management and talent sourcing technology.

The company combines its software with human expertise to deliver end-to-end contingent workforce management. Its stated aim is to address fragmentation, inefficiency and compliance risk in the way enterprises engage non-employee workers. The business serves enterprise workforce management, staffing and contingent labour, procurement and human resources functions, with a global remit.

Lifted is a wholly owned subsidiary of Upwork. It operates with the scale and resources of a public company while retaining a startup mindset and an entrepreneurial pace of work. The culture is described as mission-driven, focused on fixing fragmented systems within contingent workforce management.