Upwork has instituted a mandatory new service called Marketplace for their entrepeneurs. Marketplace has a fee of 5% for entrepeneurs that is meant to replace Upwork Plus (which was a previously a voluntary $49 service to help find new freelancers easily and included some other accounting benefits).
What is very upsetting is that even for entrepeneurs that already have hired freelancers before Marketplace was instituted, will still be charged this 5% for all payment transactions for those freelancers (even though the main benefit o[censored]pwork Plus is to help find new talent!)
What is also shocking is that Upwork Plus is $49, but the entrepreneur could end up paying hundreds of dollars for that same service in their 5% Marketplace fees to get the same benefit. Was this information helpful? | 
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