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Employment Rights Bill: why the 2026 freelancer hiring boom could be short-lived
Government's day-one dismissal pledge falls short as experts predict hiring freeze for new perm hires and surge in contractor demand. However, this trend could be short-lived due to an upcoming work status consultation
The Employment…
Small business owners feel “mugged” again by Reeves
Small business owners are expressing their discontent over their exclusion from Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ December glitzy drinks party for scale-ups. Here we share their viewpoints and how the Labour Party's tax policies…
When freelance job platforms start offering credit, is it time to celebrate or address the payment…
OPINION
A Youlend-Upwork partnership highlights growing freelancer reliance on credit to bridge cash flow gaps and take on bigger projects. Despite filling a market gap, Katherine Steiner-Dicks feels something fundamental about the…
The Freelance Champion we need: Why Britain’s £366bn workforce deserves more
Britain's 4.38m freelancers need an independent cross-sector Freelance Champion and Commissioner who has legislative voting rights
When the House of Lords debated the government's Employment Rights Bill back in July, peers raised a…
Reeves’ Budget raids savings, family legacies, pensions and self-employed “wealth”. But on the…
“Rachel Reeves says the government wants to make the best place in the world for businesses, but has landed a handful of blows to business owners today,” Matthew Knight, Chief Freelance Officer at The Independency Co., tells The Freelance…
Peter Dawe: “Employees are taxed, robots are not! Ask any economist what the consequence is…”
With humans scrambling to secure well-paid work and financial breathing room, the cost of employing people and AI is closing down job vacancies — everywhere. And leaving a gaping hole in Treasury coffers.
“This is not going to…
When did working become a crime in the UK?
The UK workforce is on the precipice, and Westminster isn’t acting fast enough
OPINION
Britain's workforce is suffering. Unemployment is rising. Living costs are soaring. And finding work that actually pays the bills? Nearly…
Fiverr opts for “AI-first” strategy and parts ways with 30% of its staff
We dissect the language and actions of one of the latest CEOs to take an “AI-first” approach to business and what that could mean for mass unemployment, economic stability and individual earning power
OPINION
Fiverr's 2024 Impact…
Salesforce’s aim to become agentic enterprise could spur copycat mass redundancies across customer…
Big tech CEOs are celebrating AI triumph, but what happens when their corporate customers follow suit? Will more AI agents replace people’s jobs, purchasing power and livelihoods? And when replicated on a global scale, how will households,…
Mr. Altman, AI isn’t just for young workers: Wisdom and experience are the ultimate AI…
Sam Altman's concerns about older workers and AI miss a key point. This article presents a new, inspiring angle for freelancers and contractors to use their decades of experience as a unique advantage in the AI era.
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