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More than 15% of the UK workforce are now self employed, an increase of half a million in 2010 to 4.6 million today, according to the Office of National Statistics.
But only 2.5% of the workforce (3.1 million people, not including the self employed or unpaid volunteers) consider home their primary place of work, says the Telework Research Network.
He was a self employed Financier.
Not being self employed.
But while the self-employed workforce is getting bigger, typical earnings are actually lower than they were 20 years ago.
The UK's self-employed workforce has grown by 800,000 to 4.7 million since 2008, according to official figures.
Experts said they were most concerned about those in their 40s, who comprise about two-thirds of the self-employed workforce.
Among the committees' recommendations are that companies with a self-employed workforce above a certain size should be required to treat individuals as workers by default.
The committees went on to call for companies with a self-employed workforce above a certain size to be required to treat individuals as workers by default.
Both Deliveroo and UberEats have seen discontent amongst their "self-employed" workforce over the terms of payment for carrying out deliveries, leading to a series of "wild cat" strikes and an attempt at some form of unionisation.
Then there's the increasing number of freelancers joining the UK's self-employed workforce – which sits at just shy of five million people – explaining why companies like WeWork are raking it in.
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