The recent imposition of US trade tariffs has generated turbulence across global markets, leaving businesses and individuals alike anticipating considerable cost increases. For freelancers throughout the UK, and indeed worldwide, it’s now essential to get a better understanding of the tariff situation and to consider appropriate adjustments to their rates and costs. Industries experiencing the […]

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The chance that there could be a deep US recession in 2025 is growing. This news would cast a long shadow over the UK’s already strained economic prospects. With tightly interwoven economies, the UK is poised to feel the reverberations of any significant downturn across the Atlantic, particularly within its labour market. Here we look […]

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It is projected that in 2027, 86.5 million people will be freelancing in the United States and will make up 50.9 per cent of the total US workforce. However, there is a growing number of contract, freelance, and temporary workers there that would prefer full-time employment, according to a McKinsey survey. What’s got the US […]

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For millions of freelancers, the UK’s entrepreneurial spirit is broken. Over the past year, portfolio contractors and freelancers have battled with the pandemic alongside broken policy promises and IR35 reforms. Could freelancers join forces rather than go it alone to get the economy’s mojo back? Katherine Steiner-Dicks reports If the odds are stacked against them, […]

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Drivers and other workers for so-called gig economy companies in California will not become their employees, the New York Times reported. “California voters carried Uber and Lyft to victory, overwhelmingly approving Proposition 22, a ballot measure that allows gig economy companies to continue treating drivers as independent contractors,” said the report. The news follows Uber, […]

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