Business Performance up Among UK Freelancers
Increase in freelancing work predicted for 2015 yet freelancers remain only partly optimistic The freelancing and self-employed community witnessed an increase in work towards the end of 2014, with continued rise expected for 2015, according to the latest Freelancer Confidence Index. The survey, published by the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE), and freelancer platform Elance-oDesk, found that in the final quarter of 2014 freelancing contracts accelerated and resulted in an income increase of 7.4%. Overall freelance confidence was up with 53% of Elance-oDesk members expecting a rise in revenue in 2015 and 70.9% of IPSE members believing that revenues will either rise or remain at 2014’s levels. However 51% of the respondents also predict that their over... »