Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

SLT and work.lk partner to enhance Sri Lankans’ digital lifestyles

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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the leading ICT and digital solutions provider in the country, proudly announced the company’s recent tie up with work.lk, the pioneering online freelance marketplac­e in Sri Lanka, to increase convenienc­e to the public in finding essential services online, whilst also empowering the freelance community in the country to find freelance jobs easily.

The memorandum of understand­ing (MOU) between the two companies was signed recently at the SLT head office premises in Colombo Fort, by authorised signatorie­s work.lk Head/founder Anjana Ratnayake and SLT Chief Marketing Officer Prabhath Dahanayake. Several other officials from both companies participat­ed in the agreement signing.

The recently launched www.work.lk, which is the first freelance website in Sri Lanka, is an online marketplac­e designed by Efuturetec­h Systems (Pvt.) Ltd. It enables people to easily hire any type of workers for a job including skilled labour such as plumbers or electricia­ns or even profession­als such as auditors or IT profession­als without any hassle.

It enables job requiremen­ts to be published on the website free of charge, allowing interested parties to bid for the job or call the client. Alternativ­ely customers have the option of searching through the work.lk database for suitable profession­als/freelancer­s.

It also provides a platform where freelancer­s can advertise themselves by registerin­g their profiles with work.lk, which is also available free of charge. This provides the ability for profession­al freelancer­s or even students, housewives or others to earn an extra income by marketing and advertisin­g their skills through the work.lk website.

Under the MOU, SLT will facilitate its customers by providing the required platform, which will enable them to subscribe for work.lk services by choosing the ‘Pay with SLT’ option. Using this payment option, SLT customers are assured of subscribin­g and paying for services of work.lk in the most convenient and secured manner.

This partnershi­p is in line with SLT’S vision of becoming Sri Lanka’s preferred digital lifestyle partner by the year 2022 and is part of a series of endeavours embarked on by the company to introduce innovative digital services to enhance living standards of citizens of Sri Lanka.

Dahanayake gave his comments concerning the MOU saying, “We keep and act upon our promise to be the national ICT and digital services provider to the nation. This is one such initiative that we have embarked on to fulfil our promise to the nation, by enabling and facilitati­ng digital lifestyles for the citizens of Sri Lanka. SLT invites start-ups, students and educationa­l institutes as well as others with innovative and creative ideas to partner with us so that we can support and empower you to take your innovative ideas to the nation.”

Ratnayake also gave his comments saying, “At Work.lk, our vision is to create an efficient and user-friendly market place for those who need services or providers of services in Sri Lanka. At present, we already have over 20,000 skilled profession­als registered with us. We are indeed delighted to partner with Sri Lanka Telecom for Work.lk.

This partnershi­p will provide us access to SLT’S large customer base that spans across all parts of Sri Lanka, which will enable us to successful­ly expand our services to households across the country, enabling us to serve and empower more people in Sri Lanka, no matter what part of the island they live in.”

 ??  ?? From left: Work.lk Devops Engineer Ishantha Udara, Work.lk Business Developmen­t Executive Chamara Sanjaya, Work.lk Founder Anjana Ratnayake, SLT Chief Marketing Officer Prabhath Dahanayake, SLT Deputy Chief Marketing Officer Upali Jayakody, SLT DGM Charles Ranaweera and SLT Engineer Kaumadee Sooriyaara­chchi
From left: Work.lk Devops Engineer Ishantha Udara, Work.lk Business Developmen­t Executive Chamara Sanjaya, Work.lk Founder Anjana Ratnayake, SLT Chief Marketing Officer Prabhath Dahanayake, SLT Deputy Chief Marketing Officer Upali Jayakody, SLT DGM Charles Ranaweera and SLT Engineer Kaumadee Sooriyaara­chchi

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