Category: Freelancing
Your Company Needs Independent Workers
From the Harvard Business Review, Steve King and Gene Zaino discuss companies need for a flexible workforce to…
Is Self-Employment Right for You?
The Motley Fool provides some advantages and drawbacks to being self-employed. If you are considering being self-employed,…
The 9 Most Important Takeaways From Freelancers Union’s Annual Survey
From Mediashift, Kristen Fischer offers her nine most important observations from the Freelancer Union’s annual survey including: 1….
Work Market First Freelance Management System to Offer Healthcare to Independent Professional Network
Marketwatch reports that Work Market will offer affordable healthcare to its independent workers through a partnership with Stride…
Top 5 legal resources for freelancers
From Guerrilla Freelancing, Leon Harris offers his recommendations for the top 5 legal resources for freelancers and…
Survey: For Many, Freelancing Pays Better Than Traditional Jobs
From Forbes, Elaine Pofeldt shares the results of a survey of over 7,000 adults conducted by the Freelancers…
What the Rise of the Freelance Economy Means for the Future of Work
From the Huffington Post, Susan Lund discusses the growth of the gig economy and reports that recent research…
The 6 Freelance Work Models For All Organizations
From Forbes, Jacob Morgan discusses six models in which companies engage with freelancers — ranging from no freelancers…
4 risk management must-haves for independent contractors
From ComputerWorld, Ted Devine offers four recommendations for things that independent contractors must have to mitigate their…
Creating A New Kind Of Safety Net For The Gig Economy
From Fast Company, Steven Hill proposes a solution to the issue in the gig economy in which some…
How many people work in the ‘gig economy’?
From Marketplace, Andy Uhler discusses the challenges of the Pew Research Center study — the data collected by…
Self-employment rate remains steady for the past several decades
The Pew Research Center reports that the rate of self-employment in the U.S. has held remarkably steady…
