For some professionals, freelance is a source of extra income. Others dedicate themselves exclusively to it, either as an alternative to unemployment or the search for a more flexible routine. But, like job seekers, freelancers should not be limited to technical skills. It is necessary to improve soft skills . Knowing how to communicate well, manage your time, collaborate and prioritize tasks,....
Can I become a freelancer without specific skill ? It is the question of many people who want to start freelancing. What skill should I offer if I don’t have a particular skill like programming and writing? In fact, you can start freelancing and without having specific skills, but of course, as time goes by you need to....
Committed Freelancers Get Higher Life Satisfaction and Payment, According to Survey. Most freelancer (69%) dedicated their time to their freelancing way of life, while some other do freelance job as supplements beside their main job in the company. The highest percentage of Freelancer that dedicated their choice of freelancing life is at western Europe with 77% of them working only as freelancer. While in Central America, 42% of freelancers split their time....
Covid-19 has opened eyes to many corporations that Working from Home (WFH) is not an impossible thing to apply. Besides that many employees have experienced the benefit of WFH during the lockdown. When it is time for the “new normal” and employees must go back to the office many of them feel reluctant, one of the reasons is....
Within 10 years, freelancers will account for more than 50 percent of the U.S. working population. What are the implications for consumer cultures and corporate ones? Shifting demographics, digitalization and the demand for greater job satisfaction could turn the global employment environment into a freelance-driven model in the coming years, bringing benefits and challenges to businesses, the....
COVID-19 struck hard as we started to work from home, most of us had to hit the running ground to accommodate our attitudes and habits. And when there’s a situation like this, the pace of business is totally different. Weeks tend to feel like months in uncertain situation. In these constraints, business leaders needed to....
The word “gig economy” became popular at the height of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, task-based labour has grown and has become an important factor in the overall economy. The idea of receiving money from short-term activities has long been around. The gig economy is very broad, and includes workers who are full-time independent contractors (for example,....
Hiring managers are accelerating the use of freelancers, according to the annual Future of the Workforce Report from the job platform Upwork, with the unemployment rate at 13.5 per cent and a rapidly changing job market. The survey showed that 45 percent of hiring managers anticipate freezes on new hires while 39 percent anticipate layoffs....
For all the uncertainty that Coronavirus has caused worldwide, there’s one thing that we can be sure of: remote work is booming. The rise of working from home (WFH) is logical considering global lockdowns and the necessity of self-isolation, but it’s still impressive to see how swiftly workers and businesses alike have adapted to continue....
Martha, an independent consultant left a global consulting firm to set out on her own. Now she’s part of a widely defined as gig economy, an emerging section of the labor force. Often by choice, there are about 150 million workers in North America and Western Europe have left the fairly secure corporate life and join the gig economy. Some of this development represents the....
