7. April 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might remember: some time back in the 2000s there was this \u2018Digital Boh\u00e8me\u2019 (the way Holm Friebe and Sascha Lobo defined it in 2006<\/a>), which referred to some kind of disruptive or even exotic form of working, primarily for \u2018young people\u2019, who would sit behind their laptops in a caf\u00e9 working on \u2018projects\u2019 of every imaginable caliber while sipping a latte-macchiato with *insert hip topping\/flavor*. Flash forward: in the year 2021 this kind of working has basically become as regular as every other job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Freelancing numbers are off the charts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, caf\u00e9s might still be closed and perhaps the only fancy coffee is the one out of your own coffee-machine in your own kitchen, the current numbers of the amount of work done by freelancers are staggering. In the US alone 41% of the workforce freelanced in 2020 (up 13% since 2013!), while 53% of the Generation Z (18-22) chooses the freelancing path. Moreover, at least half of organizations worldwide (with staff of 1000+) have seen a substantial increase in their freelance workforce in the past five years (source<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n