The shift to a more flexible, remote workforce has been happening throughout the past couple of years, but 2020 and COVID have caused a huge acceleration in this trend. In…
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By Glenn Laumeister, AllWork CEO
The Gig Economy has shown itself to be extremely valuable to startups who want to grow quickly and build targeted elements of their business in a super flexible way.
This surge of freelance workers shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, a survey by Braintrust found that 85% of knowledge workers are open to becoming freelancers. They want to work from anywhere, be their own boss, and work on the jobs that interest them the most.
With this flexible workforce comes a whole new set of compliance and legal concerns. Managing and paying this workforce is much different than how you may be currently managing full-time, salaried employees. As a startup, your focus is on fundraising, growing your revenue, and making an awesome product, but there’s something else you need to worry about too: freelancer classification and compliance.
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Now that the pandemic has shown everyone just how easy it is to work remotely and flexibly, more and more employers are planning to stick with freelance, part-time workers even after they return to “normal.” In fact, 60 percent of US business leaders surveyed would prefer to “share talent” with other companies, and 60 percent anticipate a core workforce with fewer full-time staff over the next few years.
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Last year, the spread of the coronavirus caused retailers to shutter and in-person shopping to grind to a halt. But these past few months have shown that shoppers are gradually returning to stores, marking a shift from the predominantly online consumer habits that dominated 2020. In fact, visits to physical stores have increased by 28.5% since the start of the year. Customers who’ve spent the past year stuck at home are ready to shop and they’re ready to have in-person experiences.
(more…)By providing one streamlined platform for total freelancer management, businesses can leverage the new Modern Workforce where the number of freelancers will soon be equal to the number of permanent employees in most companies.
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