Because services like Elance and oDesk cater to a *global* workforce, we have to be extremely careful in assuming work in the U.S. economy is shifting to U.S. freelancers. In more cases than not, it’s shifting offshore. We also have to be extremely careful about supposed ‘stats’ from those services, as they can be misleading. Elance, for example, boasts a growing number of job posts (job opportunities), but neglects to indicate whether (1) those opportunities are actually fulfilled, and (2) those opportunities are fulfilled by U.S. contractors.