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The workforce has undergone seismic shifts in the past 4 years.
Spurred by the pandemic, the great resignation and immediate remote work adoption, the “freelance economy” has looked promising as the future workforce.
But then 2024 happened. Widespread layoffs replaced the great resignation. Return-to-office policies from Amazon to Dell replaced broad remote work acceptance. The combination of inflation with an uncertain economy strongly challenged employees’ confidence that freelancing is safer than a full-time job.
The MBO Partners State of Independence 2024 report clearly shows that individuals, even amidst a trying economy, are overwhelmingly choosing independence over full-time employment. What does this mean
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