Ed Bussey, CEO and founder of primary content specialists Quill, on how you can leverage on-demand business practises to maximise efficiency and performance.
The creatively dubbed ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is liberating the workforce. Technological advances including collaboration software, cloud computing, screen sharing, and video conferencing have fundamentally transformed the way that people can produce and deliver work and interact with both their colleagues and customers.
Increasingly, skilled professionals are moving away from the established norm of office-based work – which has often historically gone hand-in-hand with spending significant sums on commuting into city centres – and are instead choosing the flexibility and empowerment of freelance work and self-employment. It’s a skyrocketing global trend, with research predicting that half of the UK workforce will be freelance by 2020, contributing more than £51bn to the UK economy....