Benefits of hiring a Freelancer for your Company
Being a freelancer is no longer considered as a less promising job. Its been a long time ago since people had a negative outlook to people who work as a freelancers. Considered as unreliable workers and a form of failure for someone looking a full-time job. But that’s the old tale, nowadays freelancers demand has risen up from company either it is big company or even startups. Lots of company these days apply a friendly work system with flexible working environment. This aspect made some of company these days start to hire freelancers for short-term or long-term project in their company.
According to Forbes. The numbers of freelancers in the U.S hit 57.3 million in 2017. It means almost 36% of U.S workforce has freelance. This is not a small number for a freelancers. This also means that freelancing is one of the option in the U.S for someone finding their job. One of the reason most of them become a freelancer is because of a flexible time, and can be done remotely without coming to the office. This also has beneficial aspect for company who hire them. As they are hiring a freelancers, they does not have to worry about increasing monthly expenses because usually a freelancers is hired and paid when the project is finished.
Because of the highly amount of freelancers. Company has lots of choice to what kind of freelancer they want to hire. Unlike hiring full-time employee that usually had more than one task to finish. Hiring a freelancers will shorten the company time to finish one project because they will only focus on one thing. Also by hiring a freelancers for short-time project or even long-term, the full-time employee will not disturbed with other task as freelancers will take care of it.
Hiring a freelancer is best for startup company. These days, there are lots of startup growing faster by hiring a freelancers. Not all startups owner are expert who know everything, that is why most of them hire a freelancers whose already expert in one field, for example UI/UX Designer, Web Development, Internet Research, and Data Entry. By hiring an expert in their field, startup owner does not have to worry much about these kind of job, as they are hiring people who already had a track record, client or startup owner just have to focus on growing their company whilst freelancer do their job.
Startup does not have to worry about the cost they have to spend for hiring a freelancers. Company or startup that does not require their employee to come to the office or able to work remotely can hire a freelancers accross the world as long as the job done. So startup can find their freelancer outside their work area. Also according to BuildaTeam, company can save $73 for average hourly rate for Software Developer freelance in the U.S. This is the best option for startup to build their new company by pressing their expenses but getting the best result.
Also one of the main focus why you should hire a freelancers for your company is because the process can only take one day to finish hiring. There are lots of online marketplace for freelancers and company meet each other. Wurker.ai is one of them, with lots of option for client finding their best freelancers, Wurker also help company finding the best man for the best job. Wurker team always curate every freelancers who signed up on their website. Wurker also had a brief interview to all freelancers there. That is why one day is enough for client or company to find the best man for the best job in just one day.
Bibliography:
Pofeldt, E. (2019). Are We Ready For A Workforce That is 50% Freelance?. Forbes.com. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2017/10/17/are-we-ready-for-a-workforce-that-is-50-freelance/#36c4a43a3f82 [Accessed 4 Apr. 2019].
Singh, N. (2019). Why Startups Should Consider Outsourcing Work to Freelancers. Entrepreneur. Available at: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/307408 [Accessed 4 Apr. 2019].
