Freelancing in The News: A growing trend

Periodically on this blog, I planned to post about news in the freelancing job sector. I haven't done this since my first post; unlike my first post, though, this news appears to be more on the positive side.

Romina Maurino of The Canadian Press recently reported self-employed and contract workers now make up 15 percent of the workforce, according to American figures, and it's expected to climb even higher by the year 2020.

As far as my new home in Canada is concerned, nearly 2 million Canadians worked at least some kind of temporary job; this means contract workers made up 12.5 percent of paid employment in the country that year. In June 2014, Canadian self employment grew by 23,400 workers.

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