Non-Profit /Educational

Global education institution accelerates research hiring with Lifted, an Upwork Company™, onboarding 66 researchers in 1 day across 3 countries

Aug 19, 2025

In short about the Impact

66 independent researchers onboarded across 3 countries YTD.

Pre-identified talent activated in under 1 business day, on average.

Infrastructure ready to support anticipated expansion into 7+ additional countries.

The challenges we’ve tackled

Distributed Workforce Activation and Jurisdiction-Specific Compliance

Dozens of researchers needed to be onboarded simultaneously, and compliantly, across several countries.

Cross-Border Payments

Managing international payments securely and reliably without burdening internal teams.

How our solution helped

Onboarded pre-identified researchers in two coordinated deployment waves.

Processed payments within one business day of approval on average, eliminating typical payout delays.

Handled contracts, classification, and documentation under a single compliant infrastructure

Positioned the program to scale into seven additional countries with no workflow disruption.

Eliminated administrative burden of hiring and onboarding logistics.

Key success factors, which
make us different

Pre-Identified Talent Model

Enabled fast onboarding of known contributors without requiring upfront sourcing.

AOR Compliance Structure

Managed classification, contracts, and workforce risk mitigation across borders.

Hands-On Support

Lifted’s program team provided day-to-day account guidance, timeline coordination, and live issue resolution.

Scalable Design

Processes and systems were built to expand into additional regions without workflow redesign.

The outcome

From Recruitment Bottlenecks to Global Research at Scale: With Lifted’s AOR model in place, this education institution can focus on mission delivery while rapidly launching a complex, international research project. They do not need to compromise speed, compliance, or internal resources while meeting their goals. Onboarding timelines were cut to less than one business day on average, payments were streamlined, and program operations will now scale seamlessly into new geographies.

While this work was performed when these Enterprise solutions were embedded in Upwork, the same offerings and more are now available through Lifted, an Upwork Company.

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