Keep the Challenges of Freelancing in Check

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Equality, Human, Resources, Business/management, Workplace, Careers, Management, Hbr, Entrepreneurship, Harvard, Business/entrepreneurship, Business, Gender, Women, Progress, Business/careers

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What are the psychological and social skills freelancers need to achieve the self-made career they envisioned? Two researchers break down the common existential and interpersonal challenges that come with working in the gig economy. They share routines and practices that help independent workers keep themselves motivated, productive, and developing professionally.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com-womenatwork.
0:25.5	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:31.5	I'm Emily Callfield.
0:32.5	Freelancing is a lifestyle that's continuing to grow.
0:40.5	In 2020, a third of the U.S. workforce freelanceed,
0:44.5	according to a report commissioned by the freelancing marketplace, upworked.
0:48.5	Increasingly, people in the gig economy are skilled professionals.
0:51.5	They're freelancing full-time and are planning to do so indefinitely.
0:55.5	Two main reasons that women choose to work freelance,
0:59.5	freedom and control, freedom to work when they need to work,
1:02.5	to have their work adapt around their personal lives,
1:07.5	and they also have control over what work they take,
1:10.5	and doing work that's meaningful and interesting to them.
1:13.5	They can command more power in the gig economy sometimes,
1:18.5	and they do in organizations.
1:20.5	That's Brianna Caza, a researcher who studies the lives of gig workers.
1:24.5	Her research partner, Erin Reed,
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