Freelance Worker
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A Freelance Worker is a skilled self-employed worker who enters into a freelance contract (to perform freelance tasks).
- AKA: Skilled Self-Employed Worker.
- Context:
- They can range from being a Freelance Knowledge Worker to being a Freelance Laborer.
- They can find work via Word-of-Mouth, from past clients, or via a Freelance Sourcing Service.
- They can (typically) work on a Well-Defined Task.
- They can (temporarily) be, if they only have one active job, a Contingent Worker.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Skilled Employee, such as a Skilled Organizational Consultant.
- a Temporary Worker.
- See: Work for Hire Contract.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer
- A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are sometimes represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and labor contributed by its regular employees. Others are completely independent. “Independent contractor” would be the term used in a higher register of English.
Fields in which freelancing is common include: music, journalism, publishing, screenwriting, filmmaking, acting, photojournalism, cosmetics, fragrances, editing, photography, event planning, event management, copy editing, proofreading, indexing, copywriting, computer programming, web design, graphic design, website development, consulting, tour guiding, video editing, video production, translating, illustrating and micro jobs.
- A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are sometimes represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and labor contributed by its regular employees. Others are completely independent. “Independent contractor” would be the term used in a higher register of English.