Freelancers' Futures are Bright

The new year brings good reasons to be happy and smile as it predicts that freelancers would have a bright and prosperous future ahead. Recently a survey was conducted by an online services marketplace for professionals looking for freelance jobs. The survey revealed that freelancing business would exponentially grow in the coming years from over 800 freelance professionals as a whopping 79% of respondents expect their freelance business to increase in 2010. Surprisingly out of those surveyed 59% of freelancers prefer Freelancing to Full-Time Employment. This clearly states that the freelancing sector will witness a major boom in the coming years that means there are more number of freelance jobs would be available to freelancers across the globe.
Professionals from around the world in almost every business sector are looking for freelance-projects as they can't rely on their full time jobs anymore. The insecurity of losing a job could be one the reasons of growing demand of freelancers.

The global economic downturn could be one of the reasons behind the growing demand of freelancers across the globe. 18% of professionals who participated in the survey believed that the recent loss of a job as their primary reason for freelancing, and another 36% using freelancing as a way to supplement income from a full-time job. Only 29% of respondents considered freelancing to be their primary job or business. The freedom is also one of the reason freelancers choose freelancing for as they work from home and set their own hours along with the ability to control their own destiny while increasing their earnings potential.
Another reason as many professionals believe that freelancing would increase as many small and large companies are also looking forward to outsource their important freelance jobs assignments to freelancers. They want to outsource all their core and non-core assignments to freelancers as 57 % of the survey respondents feel that the main reason is to "cut costs or reduce staff".

This clearly explains that freelancers have more freelance jobs coming their ways in the next few years. We hope that freelancers find jobs and grow their business in the near future. Please share with us what are your predictions for freelancing career; also share your comments and suggestions on the same.

Alina, a competent result oriented freelance professional and consultant with more than 4 years of extensive experience in Content writing and website development. Write articles on varied topics such as freelancing, trends, freelance project, market, jobs, resources etc.