{"id":228,"date":"2021-02-01T00:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2021-02-10T04:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:52:36","slug":"freelance-gig-work-continues-to-be-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/freelance-gig-work-continues-to-be-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelance (Gig) Work Continues to Be Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The freelance (gig) economy has been growing for many years and COVID-19 has not slowed down the growth.\u00a0 In fact, according to a survey conducted by Paychex Worx, \u201cit may have increased the demand for freelance work, as employees\u2019 transition to virtual work environments,\u201d (1)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The survey results are interesting, although they should be qualified by the fact that the survey size was small.\u00a0 Paychex Worx surveyed only 1000 full-time professionals.\u00a0 Nonetheless, here are some of the results (2):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>82% would be interested in freelance work<\/li>\n<li>59% secured freelance work during the pandemic<\/li>\n<li>22% of the freelancers started freelancing during the pandemic<\/li>\n<li>52% of freelancers did not tell their primary employer about their freelance work<\/li>\n<li>Freelancers spent an average of 15 hours per week on freelance work<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCurrent remote work flexibility may be inspiring [some employees] to pursue freelance work \u2013 69% identified having the ability to do their jobs from anywhere\u201d<\/li>\n<li>72% of freelancers do not have difficulty balancing freelance work with their full-time job<\/li>\n<li>59% want to continue freelancing for multiple years or indefinitely<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>56.7 million Americans participate in freelance work.\u00a0 Considering there are 161 million workers in the U.S. (3), freelancers comprise a large part of the labor force (35%).<\/p>\n<p>Does your company have a policy on freelance work?\u00a0 If not, now is the time to add one.\u00a0 And remember to address potential conflict of interest problems.<\/p>\n<p>(1) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2021\/01\/27\/many-employees-now-freelancing-on-the-side-creating-potential-conflicts\/\">https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2021\/01\/27\/many-employees-now-freelancing-on-the-side-creating-potential-conflicts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paychex.com\/articles\/management\/2020-freelance-economy\">https:\/\/www.paychex.com\/articles\/management\/2020-freelance-economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(3) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cps\/cpsaat08.htm\">https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cps\/cpsaat08.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freelance (gig) economy has been growing for many years and COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,54,36],"tags":[29,34,56,55,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}