Top Seven Reasons You Need A More Effective Freelance Management Strategy

As organizations begin to rely more and more on freelance or independent contractor workers, managing the total workforce grows in complexity. Organizations must consider a new approach to managing this critical talent pool through improved strategies and service/technology options to realize a number of benefits, outlined below.

Rapid advances in technology continue to flatten the job market, allowing organizations access to a much larger global talent pool.

In a 2013 report by Aberdeen Group, it was estimated that on average 22% of the employee population of the surveyed organizations would be comprised of freelance workers or independent workers by 2015. Additionally, a 2006 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics put the number of contingent workers at about 18% of the US labor pool, while MBO partners estimated recently that the overall number of freelance workers is 17.9 million, up 2 million since 2011.

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