The Mounting Disconnect Between American Employers and Workers

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The appeal of freelancing is workplace flexibility, the creation of one’s own schedule, and the countless rewards of self employment. In this day and age, a greater percentage of people want to work for themselves and build their dreams instead of working to fulfill someone else.

According to a new Intuit report, freelancers are expected to amount to 40% of the job market by 2020. As more and more would be employees turn to freelance work, employers will have an increasingly difficult time with finding workers to fill their positions.

What Can Employers Do?

As pointed out by Cappelli, employers may need to be more flexible in their search for workers:

Wages have not gone up despite all the talk about a tight labor market. And I think most important for the economy, we still don’t see lots of employers being willing to take people in right out of school and train them for jobs.

Times are changing and tides are shifting. Like everyone else, employers will have to get on board with the changes, unless they want to go out of business.