As the year is drawing to an end, we gathered all yesterday to go over Etcetera’s accomplishments for the last quarter of 2021.
Care to join in our traditional All-Hands Meeting Post to discuss the recent news?
Upwork surprised us this autumn with a lot of updates. (see more about some of them here ):
- Redesign of homepage and messages
- New feature to send direct messages to agencies
- Set up a consultation addition to Project Catalog
- Possibility to create your own network on Upwork
- New mobile app authentication using face or fingerprint recognition
Ukraine tax – VAT collection to start in January
These months were full of internal celebrations for our agency – 11 team members had their birthdays. We wish them all health and happiness.
We congratulate our dearest Kristina on a promotion. She is now Chief Business Development Officer, which promises even more significant success for the agency and our clients in the future.
We also went on another workation a few weeks ago to Turkey. It was a great pleasure to work, and have fun together offline and we are planning the next trip already.
The agency is growing rapidly and we have a lot of open vacancies. Don’t be shy to apply or recommend your friends for the following positions:
- Strong Full Stack Developer
- Full Stack JavaScript Developer
- Support Full Stack Developer
- Shopify Developer
- Python Support Coder
- UI/UX Designer
- Contract Coordinator
- Bidder
- Tech and Non-Tech Sourcer
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