Businesses will continue to benefit from freelancers

The future of work will be more flexible because businesses will continue to benefit from and support freelancers. The gig economy is growing because companies and businesses have started to increase the rate at which they hire freelancers. They are quickly realizing that a lot of the work they need to be done does not require people to be at the physical workplace. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, many companies are coming to the realization that hiring freelancers is more advantageous than originally presumed. Because of the pandemic, some companies have reduced time frames and resources to complete necessary tasks. While hiring full-time workers has been impossible for many because of the financial implications of the virus, the solution is found in hiring freelance workers.^[1] As a result, companies are realizing they can get access to talented workers without placing them on payroll or accommodating them in the physical workplace. This system of hiring more freelancers will most likely continue on into the future, thus affecting the future of work. For leading companies like Google and ASOS, 50% of their workforce is made of freelancers in certain locations.^[2] Companies are seeing the value in hiring flexible talent and often do to quickly grow their companies. Because freelancers are starting to be hired at unprecedented levels, the future of the workforce will be more flexible, straying away from traditional hiring methods.