oDesk.com is an online service aimed at businesses and individuals that seek to hire and remotely manage freelancers with varying specialties. oDesk Corporation, the company behind this website, is located in Menlo Park in California, and was established by Stratis Karamanlakis and Odysseas Tsatalos. The name “oDesk” connotes the nuance of “no desk“, and its founders even considered 0desk (zerodesk) in its infancy.