Status experts grumble at Just Eat making couriers self-employed | Free-Work - A reported decision by Just Eat to lay off 1,700 of its UK workforce as part of a move to swap out ‘workers’ with self-employed couriers is worrying freelancing experts. In fact, three such experts told FreelanceUK yesterday that they fear the takeaway-delivery firm is making the redundancies to re-categorise its workforce solely on the...
Spring Budget focussed on the labour market, yet ignored the self-employed | Free-Work - ‘Economic inactivity’ became a buzzword in the weeks leading up to last week’s Spring Budget 2023. The chancellor’s message in the lead-up was that Britain’s workforce needed all hands on deck to support the economy through choppy waters. With this in mind, we expected Jeremy Hunt to leave no stone unturned in his mission to...
Spring Budget 2023: Chancellor offers self-employed next to nothing | Free-Work - Jeremy Hunt yesterday lumbered the self-employed with a threadbare Spring Budget 2023. As the chief accountant to FreeAgent, Emily Coltman, put it to FreelanceUK, the chancellor unveiled “not a huge amount of” changes for freelancers. She says negative proposals were scant except that a new “full expensing” policy allowing each pound invested in IT to...
Advisers to creative freelancers reveal Spring Budget 2023 hopes and fears | Free-Work - A list of demands from creative industry self-employed freelancers as numerous as it is wide-ranging is likely overloading chancellor Jeremy Hunt, ahead of his Spring Budget 2023. Appealing to Mr Hunt to on Wednesday remember his self-employed roots (he co-ran a PR firm and then a publishing biz), is freelancer body IPSE, and innovation body...
ChatGPT: how creative freelancers can make the app work for them | Free-Work - By now you’ve probably heard about ChatGPT — OpenAI’s new chatbot. Its 175 billion parameters and uncanny ability to produce human-like text in a huge range of styles, translate text into almost any language, and respond accurately to prompts in under a minute has both amazed and shocked people worldwide. Amazement, shock — and worry...