A clouded future. Online services that match freelancers with piecework are growing in hard times. Elance, oDesk, LiveOps and many others offer freelance specialists. This tendency is growing in the web industry.
Millions of workers are embracing freelancing as an alternative to full-time employment or because they cannot find salaried jobs. According to IDC, a market-research firm, there were around 12m full-time, home-based freelancers and independent contractors in America alone at the end of last year and there will be 14m by 2015. Experts reckon this number will keep rising for several reasons, including a sluggish jobs market and workers’ growing desire for the flexibility to be able to look after parents or children.
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