Why are more and more people joining freelancing?

First of all, I think freelancers are awesome;

Secondly, freelancers are what everyone yearns for;

Finally, freelancing has become popular in more and more industries and positions.

20 16 Freelance was defined by the organizers as the performance of the "fourth industrial revolution" at the Winter Davos Forum held in Switzerland. Simply put, the traditional concept of "work" will be greatly changed by new technologies and concepts. This trend has also begun to appear in industries that require higher professional skills, such as finance. CEOAntonyJenkins, the predecessor of Barclays Bank, said that the whole financial industry will face a "Uber moment". In the next 10 year, the number of full-time workers in this line will be reduced by about half.

Through a large-scale sampling survey in 15 countries, Davos officially calculated that the total number of unemployed groups in the world would be 765,438+10,000. But considering that the world will create about 2 million new jobs at the same time, there will not be so many people who are really unemployed in the end. When there are not so many people, some people will also consider whether to become more flexible freelancers. For those who open Uber full-time and are Airbnb landlords, such a future seems to have arrived.

Becoming a freelancer may be the ultimate dream of many professionals. A recent survey in the United States shows that the number of freelancers has increased linearly in the past 10 years. The survey was conducted by Paychex, an online human resources service organization in the United States. Analysts carefully studied more than 400,000 resumes of freelancers on Indeed.com, a well-known recruitment website. The results show that from 1970 to the 1990s, "freelancer" was still a strange concept, but from 2000 to 20 14, the economic growth of freelancing in the United States became unstoppable-during 10, it increased by more than 500%.

Since 2000, the American freelance economy has started to grow rapidly.

Earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that by the end of 20 15, there were more than 53 million freelancers in the United States, equivalent to 1 freelancer for every three American workers. The emergence of online work platforms such as Uber and Airbnb makes it possible to make a living from nine to five without a fixed job. Paychex attributed the rapid development of freelance economy to the change of American values-more and more people began to hate the fixed-time commuting mode, office politics, annual review and endless daily meetings, and at the same time put forward higher requirements for spending time with their families, traveling and pursuing personal hobbies.