Freelance and Gig Work during COVID-19

Healthy Work Campaign
The Startup
Published in
7 min readJun 27, 2020

By Marnie Dobson Zimmerman, Ph.D.*

Meet Sarah

I’m on social media more than usual these days since the pandemic outbreak and stay-at-home order went into place. Questions that have been floating around among freelancers, not just in the spiritual communities, but also in the artistic, wellness, and literary worlds, are things like “What are you getting out of this time in quarantine?” “What changes are you making in your life?” “How are you making the best of this COVID time?” “What’s on the other side of COVID-19 for you?”