Como os freelancers estão mudando o futuro do trabalho

Um recente relatório prevê que, até 2027, o número de freelancers representará cerca de 50% da força de trabalho dos Estados Unidos, ou seja, 86,5 milhões. Embora a força de trabalho global tenha evoluído consideravelmente na última década, este relatório representa o dinamismo da atual geração de trabalhadores profissionais. Ele também aponta como a independência do trabalho parece superar todos os outros benefícios que o ambiente corporativo traz consigo. Os jovens trabalhadores estão escolhendo cada vez mais o ambiente de trabalho flexível, que parece oferecer satisfação pessoal e profissional inigualável através de empregos regulares em tempo integral. Além disso, é mais perceptível do que nunca que freelancing tornou-se uma secundária sustentável ou, em muitos casos, a principal fonte de renda.

Em uma época em que os freelancers estão tornando-o grande como desenvolvedores web, cientistas de dadosde redatores/editores técnicos e científicos, ou market research consultants, it is tempting to ask whether doing a regular full-time job at one company is worth the time and energy. While breaking away from the 9-to-5 schedule has become a hit among workers both young and old, there are multi-level challenges regarding long-term financial stability, medical insurance and other health benefits that freelance workers have to deal with. But what is the reality at the grassroots level? What do the job satisfaction indices point at? Here is an analysis of how the gig economy is changing the future of work.

1. O freelancing permite que você se concentre em objetivos pessoais de carreira

Usually, when young people start their careers, they have a list of career goals that they want to accomplish in their lives: from learning programming languages to becoming watersport instructors. Freelancing provides the opportunity for young people to pursue those goals, especially when they are new in their careers and might not have too many financial liabilities. In today’s age of collaboration and interdisciplinarity, it is necessary to upskill and learn new things on a daily basis, both within and outside of our careers. For example, a PhD graduate working on electronic devices might want to study bioinformatics. Choosing to freelance can be a great option in such a situation because freelancers are free to choose their schedules and workloads.

Freelancing helps experienced professionals helps tailor their work hours and skills in relation to the number of years they would like to keep working. It’s also possible that corporate workers choose to become freelance workers after reaching a certain age, say 40 or upwards, which not only makes the first steps of establishment much easier but also lets them choose who they want to work with and how much work they want to do. Some reasons that corporate workers turn to freelancing also include falling job security, changes in immigration laws, reduced employee benefits, etc.

2. O freelancing proporciona uma rede de segurança

There’s a huge probability that the current job you’re doing isn’t the best fit. However, you cannot think of making the career shift of your choice because of some necessary financial requirements. Starting to freelance in a domain you’re skilled in can help reduce the stress in many ways. It’s also the option a lot of professionals are shifting towards because of the reduced job security that regular jobs lack today. Companies are changing their manpower management tactics, the number of work-hours is increasing while the attrition rates are rising. This pushes skilled professionals to take up freelancing as a career option besides their regular jobs in order that stressing periods at work don’t throw them into a burnout zone.

Esta mudança na mente dos trabalhadores corporativos afetou a qualidade geral da atual força de trabalho americana. As mentes jovens estão se tornando mais ativas como freelancers à noite em vez de passar horas após o trabalho com seus colegas. Cada vez mais jovens profissionais estão criando perfis de freelancers em sites como Upwork, Toptal, e KolabtreeA empresa, ao invés de socializar com seus pares, trabalha no desenvolvimento de sua experiência de trabalho global e de suas habilidades.

3. Preocupações crescentes com a segurança e a garantia de riscos profissionais

Mais de 129 milhões de trabalhadores nos Estados Unidos. are covered by worker’s compensation, according to NELP, but many companies in the gig economy do not provide it because their workers are classified as independent contractors. Although this is a concern well-discussed with regard to gig workers in the US, such as those working as delivery agents, door-to-door salespersons or for ride-sharing cab companies, the concerns are similar for freelancers as well. When freelancing professionals work on projects that take them to distant locations or to unknown website databases, they are completely out on their own and are at risk of accidents, hacking or unwarranted property damage. These risks are quite real and freelancers have to prepare for them without their careers being affected badly.

Entretanto, muitas empresas estão incluindo seus trabalhadores autônomos em sua base de funcionários e ajudando-os com benefícios de seguro médico e de risco acidental. A desvantagem é que tais empresas são em número limitado e podem estar presentes apenas em certas cidades.

Os cientistas freelance são os últimos a entrar neste reino paralelo de emprego. Apesar de ser dificilmente imaginável no passado, Os trabalhadores da ciência agora compreendem cerca de 16% de trabalhadores de show. Os cientistas de dados freelance são os líderes em este espaço, que compreende cerca de 10% while scholars from other disciplines are soon gaining a vast prominence. What affects the freelance workers in this space is that they need to remain connected with colleagues in their field. They also might require government or external funding. Ciência dos dados is, by far, the most lucrative area of freelance work than other science, technology, engineering and medicine related fields.

Independent working is not a difficult possibility for technology majors, who need not more than a computer system and a couple of programming languages set up on it. Similar case for writers, editors, market pesquisa analysts and scientific illustrators as well. But how they carve out their niche and grow their ambitions is totally a skill that depends on personal caliber as well as access to the right platforms. What is intriguing to note is the pace in which scientists, market research consultants, trainers, and app/web developers have risen as freelancers/independent workers, which clearly points that freelancing is surely going to remain as one of the viable career choices in the future. This sustainability + flexibility combination is playing out well in both the US and Europe.

Overall, the change is positive and is leapfrogging ahead. It all boils down to how freelancers are regarded by organizations. Are they considered as constitutive employees of the organization or is the communication with freelancers just about the work and project completion, targets and deadlines? In the years to come, freelancers would like to expect more “inclusiveness” that traditional employees enjoy. They may also be able to remain loyal to the organizations they work for, even if it is on a contingent-work basis. The success of the freelance economy, although a tough bet to consider now, may fuel the concept of self-employment in the minds of the future generations to come, given the rise in the demand of niche skillsets.