Hope I'm not posting this against any Upwork rules but really wanted to hear what the community and administrators have to say on the subject. According to my experience and various articles on the web, there are way less jobs than usually. I know most of us have been "paranoid" about this for some time and wondering what's going on (especially on many groups/forums outside Upwork) but it really does seem there is a problem with the number of (good) jobs. To reference an article from media.thinkum:

Beginning in October, the total number of jobs on the site plummeted from a high of nearly 91,600 opportunities in October to just 63,000 as of this week.

Is there a real issue going on or is it just a connects/fees purge that needs to happen before things get back to normal (of some sort). I've been on Upwork since 2015, so since the merge of oDesk and Elance and can't honestly remember the last time it was this problematic. Especially for this time of the year.





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