“All the research shows that the biggest growth segment in the U.S. labor market is freelancers – it’s a segment that has grown at three times the rate of any other since 2014. The estimates are that by 2027, more than half the workforce in the Western world will be freelancers. It’s a phenomenon you can’t ignore.”
So says Gali Arnon, chief marketing officer at Fiverr, the Israeli-based online marketplace for freelancers and their customers. She says the force for change isn’t just technology but the work habits of the up-and-coming generation of millennials – Generation Y – who are “kicking the 9-to-5 work habit.”
Others who naturally gravitate to freelance work are women with young children who prefer to work from home, retirees who want to earn some extra money, and people in countries where the job market doesn’t provide enough employment.
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