Why use freelancers?

We'll show you how freelancers, contractors and consultants are able to respond quickly to the evolving needs of your business, and help it to grow in these challenging times.

Freelancers work across all sectors, from HR to IT, graphic design to engineering, at every corporate level – from the boardroom down. Freelancers bring flexibility, help you to manage risk and to unlock innovation and talent within your business. Freelancers can plug in rapidly to your business to bolster expertise and improve speed to market. While your competitor is thinking about it, you could have a team of freelancers delivering it!

There are 1.4 million freelancers in the UK and the flexibility added by this community is contributing some £21 Billion to UK GDP - the value of this resource has never been more significant.

"labour market flexibility will remain the UK's real competitive advantage."

Richard Lambert, CBI

Downloads:

Freeing Up Growth: How to harness freelance talent for business success. Insight into how using talent on an ‘as needed’ basis is becoming a major competitive strategy (published Feb 2010)

The Shape of Business the next 10 years CBI report to stimulate debate about how business will develop over the next 5-10 years (published Nov 2009)