Hayden Brown
Analyst · MKM Partners. Your line is open.
Yes, it's two question, Rohit. I don't think that there's been a big change in the last 30 days around their level of certainty. But there is a big conversation at every company right now around self tightening in general. And so, I think where we've taken that, in terms of how we've thought about our guidance is, we are expecting that every company as they go through Q4 is going to continue to be very guarded with their spend, very measured with their spend. And so that is something that on the margin, we expect to again, modestly impact and impact our Q4 numbers. Because, a lot of times in Q4, that's not the case, a lot of times people are more in this, like use it or lose it mentality with their budgets, and it's just kind of a different mentality. So I think that's a temperature that's out there in the environment right now. And that's something that we have taken into consideration as we think about how the rest of the year is going to play out. I think the other dynamic that we hear from our customers is, our customers, especially if you think about our enterprise customers and the change agents, who are typically the ones advocating for the Upwork solution inside those companies. So people like [Indiscernible] at UST they're the ones who are the change agents, and they actually see this moment quite often as the moment when suddenly, they can actually force their agenda a bit more. Because this is a scarcity moment, which forces everyone in the business to stop and evaluate what are they doing and how are they doing it? And is it the best use of resources. So this is actually the moment when these change agents can kind of step to the table and step to the forefront and say, hey, I have an alternative here with Upwork that actually lets us achieve these objectives differently. And it gives them a platform that maybe during normal times or kind of fattier times, they don't have that opportunity in the same way. So, again, it's very hard for us to know how the whole headwinds, tailwinds pieces of the macro play out for us. But our change agents have I've been hearing from some of them like this is an opportunity where scarcity drives a different type of conversation and advantage for them in promoting the agenda and the advantage of knowledge they have around our solution and what it can do for their businesses, which is really interesting.