I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how freelance work has evolved and where it actually came from. Check out the graphic below to see how things have changed over the past 200 years. This will give you an idea of where freelancing started, where it is today, and where it’s going. […]
A popular topic of discussion around the freelancer economy is the idea of full time employment disappearing. In other words, is it realistic to think that in the near future everyone is going to be a freelancer and we won’t have any full time employees anymore? So what’s the answer? Neither I nor the companies I speak with see full time employment completely disappearing in the near future. In this episode of the #futurein5 I talk about this hybrid employment mode in more detail, tune in and let me know what you think!
Freelancing is clearly a hot topic as of late, and you may have heard of the freelance economy. But what exactly is that? Sadly, there’s a lot of confusion around what the freelance economy is and what or who a freelancer is! In this episode of the #futurein5 I try to shed some more light on what the freelance economy is.
Intuit projects that by 2020 40% of Americans will be freelancing, a study by the Freelancers Union found that 34% of the American workforce is already freelancing, and MBO Partners found that there are currently almost 18 million full-time independent workers today. Clearly something big is happening here and this trend of freelancing is only going to keep growing. In a previous video I talked about why organizations work with freelancers and today I wanted to explore why people become freelancers. […]