That's a far cry from the results of a study commissioned
this year by the Freelancers Union and Elance - oDesk, which put the number of freelancers — a broader category that includes temps, part - timers, and moonlighters — at 53 million, or one in three American workers.
Not exact matches
LinkedIn recently joined the gig economy earlier this
year when they launched ProFinder, a service that enables
freelancers to promote their business and be found
by those in need of their services.
Non-permanent workers such as
freelancers have grown from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the past 25
years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force
by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.
As a matter of fact, today 33 percent of Americans are
freelancers and it is estimated that
by the
year 2020 it'll be closer to 50 percent.
After studying and testing the use of
freelancers (called «agile talent» and «contingent labor»
by corporations) for several
years, 2017 will see the corporate use of agile talent increase and become mainstream.
Plenty of
freelancers and small business owners shoot themselves in the financial foot every
year by failing to pay their quarterly taxes.
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Whereas I'm a fly -
by - the - seat - of - my - pants - entrepreneur, she's
freelancer who has 20
years of professional experience.
Hoffice was started
by freelancers Christofer Gradin Franzen and Johline Zandra about a
year ago in Stockholm when they invited a few people into their home office to work together.
A relatively new player, Vantage Asia Publishing Limited, based in Hong Kong, publishes the China Business Law Journal ten times a
year; and publisher Kelley Fong is only too happy to state that the reason their head office is based in Hong Kong with a network of
freelancers and contributors on the mainland is simply because this means less interference
by other parties in the information they choose to publish.
Freelancing continues to be a service in demand, with a third of
freelancers citing an increase in business in the past year according to a report assembled by Freelan
freelancers citing an increase in business in the past
year according to a report assembled
by FreelancersFreelancers Union.
However, the actual value of the work this person will do in a given
year (if sold piece -
by - piece or as a
freelancer) could easily top six figures.
If you've been working as a contractor or
freelancer for a while, it's possible you've had many jobs that lasted a
year or less,
by design.