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Fiverr Says Humans Remain Essential as AI Influences Hiring<\/a><\/p>\n

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Freelance services marketplace Fiverr continues to see the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on its business.<\/p>\n

During the company\u2019s earnings call Wednesday (Feb. 18), management discussed Fiverr\u2019s ongoing transformation at a time when AI plays a role in hiring and compresses the lifetime of projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result is not less work,\u201d Micha Kaufman, founder and CEO of Fiverr, told analysts. \u201cIt is more ambitious work. Human talent remains essential. What changes is where value resides: in context, judgment, orchestration, trust and ownership of outcomes. There will be displacement in lower value transactional work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fiverr is already witnessing this dynamic, he added, even as demand for \u201chigher value specialized work\u201d accelerates at a double-digit rate. And as work grows more complex and nuanced, it becomes tougher to match talent, which Kaufman said adds more relevance to the company\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cHiring decisions will increasingly be influenced and in some cases initiated by AI agents. In that environment, traditional resume-driven hiring models become inefficient and unreliable. Precision matching contextual data and outcome history becomes critical,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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This means a major opportunity for Fiverr, he said. Right now, projects over $1,000 represent less than 15% of marketplace gross merchandise value, but they are growing 23% year over year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith focused execution, we believe this segment will become a materially larger contributor to our business,\u201d the CEO said.<\/p>\n

Kaufman added that the company is prioritizing two categories of high value work. One is \u201ccomplex orchestrated engagement\u201d requiring collaboration between businesses, talent and Fiverr, while the other is \u201cAI native work building the AI-enabled…<\/p>\n

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