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Unionizing Freelancers: What Recent Progress Means For The Self-Employed Recent highlights: 1. Not all freelancers are eligible for union membership, but those that are find that they offer benefits freelancers can't get from their companies, since they're not full-time employees. 2. A number of steps have been taken—such as the 2017 Freelance Isn't Free Act—to provide damages for freelancers who were paid late or not at all, and to help freelancers who suffered retaliation or harassment. 3. They do not negotiate contracts with employers or represent freelancers with grievances, and as such, there are a number of legal benefits freelancers who join it are missing out on #biyro #tokyo #artistshop #miami #losangeles More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/unionizing-freelancers-what-recent-progress-means-for-the-self-employed/

Get paid Quick summary: 1. It offers a variety of tools and resources to help freelancers succeed, including a messaging system, a built-in payment system, and a rating system that allows freelancers to build a reputation and attract more clients. 2. It also offers a variety of tools and features to help freelancers and clients collaborate effectively, including a messaging system, time tracking, and a built-in payment system. 3. It offers a wide range of opportunities in different industries and fields, making it a great option for freelancers with diverse skill sets #biyro #design #tokyo #eatthesun #gmoart More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/get-paid/

Freelancer Payments Methods: What You Should Know Quick summary: 1. Use a reliable payment method: Use a reliable and secure payment method, such as a bank transfer or a payment platform like PayPal. 2. To pay freelancers via a freelancer platform, you will need to create an account on the platform and add your payment information. 3. From there, you will enter the freelancer's email address and the amount you want to pay, and then complete the payment using your preferred payment method. 4. To pay a freelancer using PayPal, you will need to have a PayPal account and the freelancer will need to have a PayPal account as well #biyro #artbasel #thelightthatinspiresfromwithin #design #sunnus More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/freelancer-payments-methods-what-you-should-know/

American freelancers' healthcare hustle Recent highlights: 1. As only the third leader of Freelancers Union since its founding in 1995, Rafael is committed to engaging with freelancers across the country, listening to their concerns, amplifying their voices in important policy debates, and continuing to strengthen and expand a movement that serves a broad spectrum of independent workers and helps them thrive in a fast-changing economy. 2. … expanding the social safety net so that freelancers are paid on time,  so that freelancers have access to affordable health insurance, [so] that they have programs like Paid Leave, for example, available to them #biyro #illustrator #design #creative #tshirts More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/american-freelancers-healthcare-hustle/

5 Reasons Freelancers Might Not Want to Join Your Team Recent highlights: 1. Solar Staff works with over 1,750 clients and more than 750,000 freelancers and offers talent onboarding, task management, security checks, payments made to 190+ countries and territories, copyright rights transactions and tax payments for freelancers from different jurisdictions. 2. Independent contractors are highly educated, motivated and optimistic about their career prospects, so the companies that address freelancers' concerns will be able to attract top talent and close the talent gap sooner #biyro #miami #bogota #tokyo #foodoverdose More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/5-reasons-freelancers-might-not-want-to-join-your-team/

Successful Working Relationship With Freelancers Recent highlights: 1. Just like regular employees receive feedback on their work, freelance workers too should receive that. 2. Freelancers, at times, are busier than regular employees, as they have to handle all the responsibilities that generally a team handles in an office setting. 3. While it is easy to onboard freelance workers, maintaining a good working relationship might be challenging if regular work ethics are not followed. 4. The content of the communication is different for permanent employees and freelancers #biyro #bogota #commission #thelightthatinspiresfromwithin #artbasel More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/successful-working-relationship-with-freelancers/

papmall® enhances the effective use of human resources by building up a talented freelancer community Quick summary: 1. Instead of recruiting employees to generate short-term or seasonal projects that cost companies a monthly budget, hiring freelancers would be more cost-effective. 2. Hiring freelancers is a cost-effective, time-saving, and convenient way to bring the best quality services to fulfill the needs of excessiveness of employees for corporations. 3. Hiring freelancers with papmall® international marketplace allows companies to assign urgent deadlines and duties 4. papmall® is a freelance services marketplace for businesses where companies can access a larger area of talented freelancers #biyro #chicago #artistshop #creative #thelightthatinspiresfromwithin More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/papmall-enhances-the-effective-use-of-human-resources-by-building-up-a-talented-freelancer-community/

The Freelance Revolution Is Ahead Of Schedule Recent highlights: 1. First, at least among tech companies, flexible, blended teams of full-time and independent employees are already the norm: 73% of tech companies have integrated teams of freelancers and employees. 2. Second, tech leaders see independent talent as a key tool amidst economic uncertainty and remote work: 71% say that bringing on freelancers or independent workers gives their business greater agility during times of economic uncertainty. 3. Fifth, the shift to blended team has created new opportunities for freelancers and freelance platforms #biyro #services #smallbusiness #sunnus #bogota More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/the-freelance-revolution-is-ahead-of-schedule/

5 Effective Websites That Are Perfect For Your Startup - Scoop Empire Quick summary: 1. Employers can either post a project providing details about what they want to be done on it, and the website will match the best freelancers for it; freelancers at this point will offer their proposals, and employers can make their selection. 2. When it comes to payment, employers can also choose if they want to stick to an hourly rate or offer a fixed price, and after they've picked all these parameters, the freelancers willing to accept the employer's offer can propose their services #biyro #bogota #commission #foodoverdose #art More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/5-effective-websites-that-are-perfect-for-your-startup-scoop-empire/

How to Make Money as a Freelancer Recent highlights: 1. One study commissioned by Upwork and Freelancers Union found that freelancers have a median rate of $20 per hour, which is higher than the median of $18. 2. Rather than making a long-term commitment to one employer, freelancers work on various projects for different clients that pay them for their services. 3. Clients will then pay the invoice according to the freelancer's payment terms, which detail when payments are due and what methods are accepted. 4. All freelancers are independent contractors, which means they offer their skills to clients on a contract basis #biyro #tshirts #artists #art #sunnus More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer/

Pandemic and Precarity in the Cultural Sector - Institute of Welsh Affairs Quick summary: 1. In order to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the cultural freelance workforce in Wales, and explore their recovery from the pandemic, Cultural Freelancers Wales partnered with Cardiff University's Creative Economy Unit to undertake a survey in 2021. 2. The Welsh Government, with its Cultural Recovery Fund for Freelancers, rose to the challenge of the pandemic retrenchment in the cultural sector (its net positive rating of +36% among freelancers in our survey was the only positive one among the main providers of pandemic support #biyro #thelightthatinspiresfromwithin #services #portland #gmoart More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/pandemic-and-precarity-in-the-cultural-sector-institute-of-welsh-affairs/

In The Future, Freelance Workers Will Dominate Over Full-Time Employees Recent highlights: 1. Businesses are more willing to hire freelancers—in fact, almost half of U.S. businesses (that's 16 million small businesses!) today leverage freelancers to support their mission, growth and revenue. 2. More than ever, businesses are leveraging the talents of freelancers, but the tools needed to hire and pay freelancers include dozens of fragmented online and offline tools manually strung together. 3. Drenik: Has the Great Resignation influenced the way businesses think about hiring freelancers #biyro #miami #photoshop #artistshop #creative More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/in-the-future-freelance-workers-will-dominate-over-full-time-employees/

Let's Bring Great Business Education To Every Freelancer: Here's How Recent highlights: 1. I'm a part-time Expert in Residence) might work with freelance platforms and communities to co-create a global utility for freelance business education, and perhaps work with universities to offer freelance business education at the undergraduate level. 2.   Let's meet that challenge by organizing to provide high quality, low cost, education to every freelancer on every platform on the planet, and reduce the gap in educational support between well-funded platforms and others. 3. As competition for good freelance talent continues to grow, platforms are increasingly investing in freelancer education #biyro #artists #portland #artbasel #commission More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/lets-bring-great-business-education-to-every-freelancer-heres-how/

How to Manage Freelancers and Independent Contractors Recent highlights: 1. Freelancers are primarily freelancers because they want greater autonomy and independence, and often are working for other organizations besides yours. 2. A dissatisfied and underpaid freelancer may badmouth your organization after the job is done, making it harder to recruit freelancers in the future. 3. The New York Times notes that vague job descriptions cause either unqualified candidates to apply or qualified candidates to stay away, and that applies to freelancers as well.  4. Like a new employee, freelancers lack the cultural knowledge and specific details about how your organization works #biyro #services #art #foodoverdose #tokyo More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/how-to-manage-freelancers-and-independent-contractors/

How to Manage Freelancers and Independent Contractors - swiftheadline Quick summary: 1. Freelancers are primarily freelancers because they want greater autonomy and independence, and often are working for other organizations besides yours. 2. A dissatisfied and underpaid freelancer may badmouth your organization after the job is done, making it harder to recruit freelancers in the future. 3. The New York Times notes that vague job descriptions cause either unqualified candidates to apply or qualified candidates to stay away, and that applies to freelancers as well.  4. Like a new employee, freelancers lack the cultural knowledge and specific details about how your organization works #biyro #gmoart #artistshop #foodoverdose #chicago More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/how-to-manage-freelancers-and-independent-contractors-swiftheadline/

Majority of independents are satisfied with freelancing career Recent highlights: 1. The data lines up with earlier results; freelancers value the flexibility and independence that freelancing provides, enjoy the quality of life it offers, and appreciate the chance to build satisfying client relationships. 2. The 'Global Survey on Freelancing' from Professor Jon Younger and Gerald Cupchik of the University of Toronto surveyed nearly 1,900 freelancers, and found that the majority are extremely satisfied, when it comes to their key career indicators. 3. The majority of freelancers are satisfied with their independent careers, according to a new academic study #biyro #services #foodoverdose #designers #portland More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/majority-of-independents-are-satisfied-with-freelancing-career/

New York City Sues French Fashion Media Company L'Officiel USA for Failing to pay NYC Freelancers Quick summary: 1. As a result, the lawsuit seeks double the unpaid wages for the freelancers, and that L'Officiel change their policies and practices in paying freelancers, submit monthly reports to DCWP about its payments to NYC freelancers, and pay civil penalties to the City. 2. When we advocated for the creation of the Freelance Isn't Free law, this is exactly the result we were hoping for freelancers across the city, stated Rafael Espinal, President of Freelancers Union #biyro #artistshop #wynwood #services #threadless More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/new-york-city-sues-french-fashion-media-company-lofficiel-usa-for-failing-to-pay-nyc-freelancers/

Freelancers, Here's Another Way To Grow Income And Reputation Recent highlights: 1.  In future Forbes pieces, I'll share other creative ways that freelancers have found helpful in building their businesses and supplementing their income.  2. But, 38% of the 1900 freelancers from over 30 countries and 77 freelance platforms and communities we surveyed were less sanguine, feeling their work portfolio and income was insufficient. 3.  The Global Survey of Freelancing, a project of my Agile Talent Collaborative and the University of Toronto, found that 60% of freelancers across professional categories either had enough project work or more work than they could handle #biyro #smallbusiness #sunnus #threadless #services More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/freelancers-heres-another-way-to-grow-income-and-reputation/

Council Post: A Freelancer's Perspective: How To Attract Top Talent Quick summary: 1. Unfortunately, these issues have haunted freelancers for years and contribute to the idea of the starving freelancer — an independent worker who is continuously forced to chase after new work just to pay the bills.  2. However, as a result of the global pandemic and resulting labor shortages, companies were forced to turn to the growing freelance workforce to help smaller, core teams keep up with demand, bringing freelancers further into the corporate world than ever before #biyro #commission #bogota #miami #losangeles More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/council-post-a-freelancers-perspective-how-to-attract-top-talent/

What we learned from the global survey on the freelance Quick summary: 1.  As more professionals turn to freelancing, and more organizations depend on freelancers, they will need to compete for the best freelancers, and must consider the work environment they create and the reputation other freelancers have of them. 2.  Almost 50% of freelancers say clients know how to work with freelancers, and rate client project managers as effective in setting realistic goals and timelines, and helping freelancers feel part of the team. 3.  Our freelancers took serious caution; freelancers understand they lack a safety net as independents, particularly in developing countries #biyro #thelightthatinspiresfromwithin #wynwood #chicago #thelightwithin More: https://biyro.com/blog/freelance/what-we-learned-from-the-global-survey-on-the-freelance/