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It’s oh so quiet…shhh…shhh…it’s oh so still. A classic Bjork song, but we sure as hell don’t like it when it happens to us freelancers. Forgive us for saying this because we like a break as much as the next person, but haven’t we had a little too much downtime this year?! One of the features of 2020 is that it has tended …
It’s not often that the internet agrees on anything. So it was quite something that the whole country united to defend poor ‘Fatima’, when an ill-thought out government advert suggested that she should retrain from her job as a ballet dancer to a career in ‘cyber’. The advert and its messaging angered people working in the arts and creative industries because …
For years, we’ve been celebrating the steady increase in the number of freelancers in the UK. It became an increasingly attractive and popular way to work – the promise of flexible hours, a varied portfolio of jobs, good work-life balance and a high degree of autonomy drew people out of traditional jobs and into freelancing in greater and greater numbers. But …
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