With more and more businesses starting up every day, it can sometimes be costly to hire full time staff. Business are now using freelancers to get work done, which means there is no shortage of work for businesses and freelancers. It can be positive, and negative, hiring freelancers.

Benefits

No matter how much you try to keep your business customs new, sooner or later your staff will develop related ways of thinking. It just happens. They all talk about the same project, and start to take on each others’ ideas. Pretty soon, the company culture is what leads the thinking in all of your projects, rather than individual creativity.

Anyone who runs a business understands the difficulty in keeping on a full-time staff when times are slow. Business owners usually have to choose the lesser of two evils: either carry the financial weight of employees during the slow times so they’ll have them in the good times, or let them go and start the hiring process again once business picks up.

Countless documentaries and news stories have been done on the amount of time that employees waste during work hours, and what that costs employers. But to someone making their living doing freelance work, time is money. If they waste time during work hours, they simply won’t make enough income to live and may need debtor finance.

That’s why, when you hire one of these freelancers, you’ll be assured of two things: they’ll get the job done as rapidly and professionally as possible, and you won’t pay for wasted time. Work is finished on a per-project basis, so going in you’ll know exactly what you’re paying for, and how much it will cost. There are no surprises, no wasted time.

Not everything is ideal though, and outsourcing is certainly no exception. Take a look at some of the negatives as well, so that you can make an impartial conclusion about whether or not hiring freelancers will work for you.

Negatives

Occasionally, an employer will hire a freelancer that they believe is perfect for the job, only to discover that they don’t truly have the necessary skills. This happens because the interviews aren’t done in person, and the usual hiring checkpoints are not used.

When you use an off-site freelancer, you’ll lose some control over them because you won’t be able to observe them. This means that if they tell you that they’ve worked on your project for five hours that day, most of the time, you’ll just have to trust them. This can be especially taxing when you’re paying someone by the hour rather than a flat fee for a finished project.

It is easy to get to know your employees when you work with them in an office because of the amount of time that you spend with them. On the other hand, it can be very difficult to form an individual relationship with someone whom you have never met face to face.  Certainly, you can correspond via email and phone, but sometimes you want to picture who you’re talking to.