Job Sucks? You Might Like Permalancing
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gpe3/quit-your-job-and-go-freelance-with-permalancing-genz-resignation
Not quite freelancers, but not full-time employees – more people are now “permalancers” instead. According to the Cambridge dictionary, a permalancer is someone who works permanently, or for a long period of time, for a particular employer as a freelancer.
Permalancing is just a full-time job without the security of employment laws applying.
In countries like the UK, it's actually illegal since there has to be a valid reason you're not an employee since they're trying to cut down on people taking advantage of better taxation via contracting and employers trying to skirt employment laws.
That was my thought while reading it. Crazy this is considered a viable alternative
How’s that different than contracting?
I'm too lazy to come up with a real sentence about how people create new nonsense words.
100% on what iain said below me. I think it's just poor practice to have some freelance long term. The business gets the benefit of not having to pay them benefits, and they get to save on their taxes. The contractor, meanwhile, doesn't get any of the benefits of being an employee yet is no different than an employee.
I get that the contractor doesn't have the same issues they would normally have if they were an employee - internal politics, felty to the client, ect. - but they aren't getting as good of deal as they think. It's really not in their best interest unless they are able to subcontract out the work. If they can subcontract the work, then perma-lancing for several clients at once is a great way to go and I think is how staffing agencies work.
Good read. This is definitely a viable alternative to freelancing.
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