Employers are increasingly relying on a patchwork of contractors, freelancers, and project-based workers.
For designers, lawyers, accountants, and all other types of project-based workers, managing time and billing clients is an inevitable hassle.
The notion that the nature of work is changing — becoming more temporary and project-based, with workers increasingly functioning as free agents and no longer being governed by traditional long-term employer-employee relationships — first gained momentum in the 1990s.
Workforce advocates say the misclassification of employees as independent contractors is a large and growing problem, especially in industries where subcontracting is common, work is project-based and workers are assigned in small groups or individually.
One-third of American workers are now engaged in some kind of freelancing, project-based work.
Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement.
At the same time, a new unemployment benefit scheme DIS-COLL was piloted for atypical workerscheme DIS-COLL wasased collaborators ('co.co.pilotedn parallel with a new unemployment assistance scheme (Picot and Tassinari 2015).
Empowered by digital communications tools, today's workers are opting for project-based and contract work over traditional, full-time jobs.
As project-based industries such as Architecture, Engineering and Construction globalize, workers require strategies for managing conflict in virtual project networks.
Meanwhile, local workers bear the brunt of the frustration and stress of temporary, project-based aid work.
