The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time

Re:The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time by dundas on Saturday September 03, 2011 @11:01AM (#2957366)

I fundamentally agree with this article. I think there are two factors at play here 1) Modularization of everything we purchase. Freelancers/contractors give business flexibility to scale up or down as they need to. 2) A continuation of the erosion of loyalty to a corporation.

Our parents generation spent 10-20 years at a job. Our generation spends 2-5 max.

In my view this is great especially for the US because it means that more people get paid for the value they create as opposed to wasting a company's time/money by clocking in from 9-5 and just waiting for Friday to roll around.

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Re:The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time by mgkimsal on Saturday September 03, 2011 @01:19PM (#2957660)

"Our parents generation spent 10-20 years at a job. Our generation spends 2-5 max."

I wonder if in some ways we're getting just as much done in those 5 years vs the 20 earlier generations spent. Perhaps there's a set amount of work at which people tend to move on (or get laid off) and we're just reaching it faster?

Far-fetched, I know, but still crossed my mind.

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