<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">[size= 11pt; font-family: Lexend,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]Companies required help with reporting, forecasting, and consumer research even if they didn't have access to office workers in 2020 and 2021. Freelancers and contract data analysts were a popular choice for many SMBs.[/size]

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">[size= 11pt; font-family: Lexend,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]They were taken aback by their discovery. Hiring an SMB Remote Data Teams [/size][size= 11pt; font-family: Lexend,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]can save you 40 to 60% when compared to the cost of an in-house data scientist that includes benefits. And the quality of the product was not inferior, but good or better.[/size]



<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">[size= 11pt; font-family: Lexend,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap]A 2023 study commissioned by Upwork found that half of all owners of small companies (58%) believed that remote data professionals could do work faster than their internal counterparts due to their work-focused/individual nature.[/size]