Why 2020 is the year businesses need to start being more freelance friendly

Many businesses are not actively considering how to work with freelancers in the most effective and supportive way, with freelancers often being ‘bolted on’ to teams and expected to get hit the ground running. Why does this matter?

With January being the month where employees are most likely to think about leaving their job, 2020 set to be another year with huge growth in the number of people turning to self-employment and freelancing as their primary source of income, and according to research: 64% of firms rely upon freelancers as part of their workforce — there’s no better time for businesses to start thinking seriously about how they better engage with, and work effectively with their freelance workforce.

If it had escaped your attention, freelancers are not your employees — so have not been given the induction to why your business exists, have not had the time to understand the internal culture and ways of working you have, don’t have the luxury of months to build trust and relationships with the team. They’re often in your business for a short period of time, with a focused task at hand — and this requires a different approach to…