I think we're seeing society come full circle in how we work.

A long time ago, people used to work out of their homes.

Then the industrial revolution occurred, and people left their homes for work.

Then the age of the internet again changed everything, but there's been a slow adoption of working from home. Plenty of companies have stuck to the industrial revolution model of work. Punching in, working 9-5, punching out...

It took a pandemic for companies to accelerate the adoption of what people have been trying to do for decades now — work from home again.

The old has become new.

After Covid, we see a sizable increase in US workers choosing full-time and part-time freelancing. 8% and 4% respectively. With about 131 million workers in the US, that means more than 10 million people decided to freelance full-time. In one year.

This is why freelance marketplaces need to start thinking even more critically about what novel ways they can offer value to freelancers as the world accommodates an increase of them.