The most important expectations about freelancing for the year 2015

Freelancing is a unique and distinct world, constantly evolving and rapidly growing. As a freelancer, you must always be aware of what is new in your field and your various interests so that you can excel in your life and in this field in particular. Many of the pioneers of freelancing, and here I mean the famous websites and freelancing platforms around the world, which have unique statistics and numbers about this field, always have new expectations and trends that they believe that freelancing will move toward this year. In this article, we will share with you a set of these expectations and trends.

Contents of the topic Toggle 1- Increasing the number of independents. 2- The trend of startups towards freelancers. 3- Increase confidence in the freelancer and appreciation for freelance work.

4- Increase the demand for e-learning. 5- Increasing the confidence of major institutions and companies in self-employment. 6- Increasing the tools and platforms targeting freelancers.

1- Increasing the number of independents. There is no doubt that the demand for freelancing is increasing hour after hour and is growing continuously and extremely virally. It is one of the inevitable expectations. The rates of increase may or may not vary from last year, but with the rapid development of technology and the ease of communication between individuals and the reliance of many companies on freelancers instead of employees, as well as the presence of online team management systems, all of this will contribute to many new people turning to freelance work because it has many advantages that make it the most suitable option.

Many people will recognize the opportunities available in the freelance market that are not available in typical work. 2- The trend of startups towards freelancers. Start-ups and medium-sized companies often have limited resources and limited budget and need every amount and every resource. The cost of hiring full-time people with a fixed monthly salary may be expensive and consume a large portion of the budget, so many startup companies prefer to appoint freelancers who complete the required tasks periodically, with an unstable wage based on each task.

With the increase in the number of startup companies, the freelance market will witness significant growth, as many people expect, which will result in many companies tending to search for freelancers through various platforms to save budget, preserve resources, reduce costs, and exploit efforts to achieve success. 3- Increase confidence in the freelancer and appreciation for freelance work. In the Arab world in particular, some people believe that freelancers are unemployed and waiting for something to compete for, etc., but the increase in the number of projects and the increase in the trend towards freelancing will completely erase this idea and this view of freelancing. Freelancers will be respected, their efforts will be appreciated, they will be sought out, and their work will be appreciated.

With the existence of freelancing platforms that contribute to preserving and guaranteeing the rights of both parties, freelancing will be safer and more confident for both parties, specifically project owners. This is a social matter of the first degree, because it affects people before businesses. In general, increasing confidence between freelancers and entrepreneurs will achieve great success in the freelance market. 4- Increase the demand for e-learning.

You may think at first glance that this expectation is not related to freelancing, but on the contrary, the increasing trend towards e-learning, especially by freelancers, will contribute to the growth of the freelancing market and broaden the horizons of freelancers, as knowledge is no longer linked to a place or time, and the ability to learn has become available to every individual with flexibility and ease. Despite the presence of huge numbers of freelancers, only a small percentage of them are able to produce high-quality work in professional ways, and these are the only ones who are not satisfied with a certain amount of knowledge, and they always try to develop their skills and experience so that they can stand out from others who are in the same field or specialization. 5- Increasing the confidence of major institutions and companies in self-employment.

This point seems to be a repeated part in the article, but on the contrary, what I mean here is large institutions and companies of great value. The trend of these companies towards freelancing and dealing with freelancers is one of the most important steps that can help in the growth of freelancing, and with the availability of protection systems and the multiplicity of advantages of freelancing and the disappearance of its risks and disadvantages day after day, there is a great opportunity for large companies to be able to deal with freelancers with all professionalism and ease, and what will also help in this is that the freelancing market now contains a very large number of professionals and very skilled people. Specialization in their fields, something that had been lacking for many years. 6- Increasing the tools and platforms targeting freelancers. Freelancers represent a broad segment that can be targeted with various projects and tools, and this is what many people expect in 2015, as they expect that companies producing tools and software will shed light on this category and work to produce products and projects targeting this category of freelancers as well as project owners in order to address their problems and develop concrete solutions to those problems such as accounting tools, task management, and communication with teams.

Likewise, foreign and Arab freelancing platforms such as Mustaqil, Khamsat, Karwa, and others will witness significant growth, and this growth is the result of the growth of the freelancing market in general, and also with the increase in the features and services provided by these platforms, such as facilitating access to freelancers and guaranteeing rights for both parties, etc. Our own prediction at SEO in Arabic is the increase in the number of projects on the Arab freelancing platforms Mustaqil, Khamsat, and other freelancing platforms in the Arab world, as many are of course in continuous growth and there are respectable budgets and funds being spent on freelancers and on work. Al-Hurr, as the Mustaqeel website, for example, affiliated with Hassoub Company, now includes more than 60,000 freelancers, which is a very large number, and dozens or even hundreds of projects and offers in various specializations and fields.

Naturally, these numbers will grow, especially since Hassoub Arabia and other companies that have platforms for freelancing are always working to develop these platforms permanently and continuously, as well as fixing loopholes, solving problems, and providing respectable technical support services and different methods of paying and receiving money. There are many expectations and different opinions about what the world of freelancing will witness in 2015. We hope that they will transform from mere expectations to facts and tangible reality, and from mere trends that come and go to stable and ongoing things. In this article, we discussed most of these expectations, or at least a large part of them, so that you are always aware of new things and trends related to your field of work. The article is important for every freelancer and owner of a company or project, as it makes you see with your own eyes many things that you may not have paid attention to. In another article, we may delve into these matters in more detail and come up with new expectations.