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Updated December 16, 2014.

Definition:

A freelancer is a person who performs work, typically for several employers over a year. A freelancer is a free agent in professional sports - he or she mainly sells its services to the highest bidder - but usually work for more than one employer.

Freelancers can work part time or full time. Because they can not be considered as an employer, to work self-employed for other employers and are generally accepted tasks in their own way to carry out, as long as the work is carried out which. According to customer specifications

The longer-term autonomous work for the same employer for a long period sometimes called "permalancers" - or "permanent independent" Permalancers may or may not be offered by their employers benefits are ..

Freelancing is one of the faster, easier and more cost effective for you is the beginning of the work.

many free web sites like Guru.com and eLance.com offer an online marketplace where employers and self-employed bid on the completion of the work in an open market, often highly competitive.

A common misconception is that freelancers are called because they work for free - or next to it. This is not the case, as independent workers to gain more and more experience in the field in which they specialize, they can dominate higher fees for their work.

Freelancer employers try to exercise too much control over where, when and how does that work can be expected the Internal Revenue Service, as these workers are generally regarded as workers, especially if they work for a single employer in the long run.

Unlike workers, employers are not going to offer individual profit, keep payroll or compensation plans or unemployment of workers required.

Aka permalancer regardless, outsourcing, independent contractor

Examples: More and more companies are always on the idea of freelancers to do openly with the work, because it saves money without making a permanent commitment, as they do to employees.

Freelancers often to fill a temporary need and for the next opportunity to move independently to work below.