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The freelance workforce is not salaried.
Mark Hirst is the founder of Suppose.com, an online price tracking platform, and manager of a freelance workforce.
"Tony Hall should look at why older women still disappear from our screens and production offices and instruct his HR department to focus not just on staff posts but on hiring practices in the increasingly freelance workforce.
Zero-hours contracts are just the visible part of a huge shift in work practices, as the traditional job-for-life makes way for a casualised, freelance workforce facing vast international competitive pressure.
In the film and TV industry in which I work – held up as a dynamic creative and economic powerhouse – the growth of the freelance workforce has coincided with skills shortages, as well as ageism, sexism and discrimination against ethnic minorities, as employers view their workforce as a tap to be turned on or off at will.
The idea is to recruit a freelance workforce of so-called Legacy Makers who help families digitize their photos.
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Despite the growing ubiquity of freelancing, this workforce still remains overlooked, under-appreciated and poorly understood.
In the US alone, 53 million people – more than a third of the workforce – are freelance, with 43% of these being millennials.
Short-term and freelance contracts meant a workforce "with little or no job security", which was even less likely to speak out about the behaviour of colleagues.
At the current rate of growth, we can expect the majority of the U.S. workforce to freelance within less than a decade.
Strategy Part Two: The hard stuff (i.e. people) ————————- The editorial analysis above gave us a clear area where we could save a lot of money: by moving aggressively to a freelance, work-from-home workforce.
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