How the Freelance Generation is Redefining Professional Norms

The world of work is changing — you can see it in the numbers. Freelancers who made up a mere 6% of the workforce in 1989 are expected to represent 43% of the workforce by 2020. This meteoric rise of the freelance workforce can be traced to a number of compounding economic and workforce factors emerging over the past several decades: Average length of unemployment extends. The average duration of unemployment in America has extended from 8.5 weeks in 1980, to 12 weeks in 2000, to 25.1 weeks...

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