Geneva 2014, ‘Employment relationships in the media and culture industries’, international labour office, vol. iii-v, pp. 1-24
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_dialogue/@sector/documents/publication/wcms_240701.pdf
This article analysed the motivation behind freelancing. By pointing out different categories of freelance, it shows that freelance sometimes can be employees as well. Grey areas exist between them. Some freelancers consider themselves as businessman who runs their own enterprise, at the same time, they are workers themselves. In this way, freelance is actually mirco-enterprise. It also outlines the legal issue of freelance varies from country to country. As self-employed is not exactly freelancer. So there is no legal middle ground between employed and self employed status except considerable overlapping. For instance, in Spain’s 2007 Self-Employed Workers, it says,’ economically dependent self-employed worker’.
To sum up, there are areas of overlapping between real freelancer and employee freelancer. A obvious thing to test this is to see if they are economically independent. However, the overlapping areas push the creative mirco-enterprise to happen.
AGCAS editors 2012, ‘Industry insight – Media’, agcas, pp. 1-13 http://www2.open.ac.uk/students/_data/documents/careers/media.pdf
This article describes the typical employers which includes self-employment, freelance. It states that the challenges you might run into in this market, the competition, the changeable market trend and hard-to establishment. As a freelancer, firstly you need to be aware of these potential problems. The paragraph in this article can be a good reminder for us. It also highlights the importance of network in this industry. Be in the freelance industry gives you enough room to develop your own specification. And you can always spend enough time on building it up into your portfolio. It also reminds us about the independence and ability level are required in freelance. What’s more, it points out the consideration we need to take about mange our own finances including tax, VAT and National Insurance contributions. The article provide us with the basic information flow of being a freelancer. It gives us a general sense of what it is like, what need to be considered and prepared before you enter the market.
Freelancer is a part addressed in this journal. It covers a lot more than that. It generally provide all the information in media industry to us. For instance, what kind of work can I do? What’s it like working in this industry? Entry and progression, Where can I find experience? Typical employers, opportunity abroad and future trends. All of these are like a futurism guide for us, the graduates, entering the industry, which is very helpful and worth more further reading and researching.
Staff in association with YunoJuno 2015, Why the creative industries are embracing the freelance economy, campaign, viewed 2 August 2016, <http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/1346999/why-creative-industries-embracing-freelance-economy#>
In this article, certain data points on the trend of freelancers are provided. For instance, ‘independent professionals in the EU grew from 6.2 million in 2004 to 8.9 million in 2013′. In all the industries, creative and digital industries are more active than the others. Next it analysis the freelancer market trend from the perspective of both freelancers and employers. From the perspective of freelancer, to be a freelancer, it is very flexible and inspiring because they get the opportunities to meet different people and agencies, the work can be more active and inspirational for them. At the same time, the multiple contents makes them more trained and skilled. In addition, it’s easier for freelancer to focus on one area and get more developed at specific things when they are self-navigating. What’s more, it mentioned that freelancers’ work trend to be more creative and think out of the box might because of the freedom they are enjoying. From the perspective of the employers, there are a couple of reality reasons for the employers to be fond of freelancers. Firstly, the changing work mode of the agencies, from a retainer to a project-based model. This makes thing less predictable for employers, ‘using something that’s a flexible resource makes a lot of sense’. Secondly, the risks, freelancers can lower the risk of a company in some level over committing on costs. They are very desired when innovating. The paragraphs on both freelancer themselves and employer’s perspective helps a lot on understanding the current freelancer market and its trend in the future. This is helpful for our project, because it gives us the general sense of what we should get out of the freelancer and what the industry is looking from us at the same time.