The Freelancer: A Conceptual Review

This paper provides a detail review of  conceptualization of a freelancer, describing its history, jobs, earnings, top hiring, freelancer countries, popular websites those serves as broker between employer and freelancer. Study also elaborate differences between an entrepreneur and a freelancer. Study supported by empirical evidences through a non-systematic narrative review of the existing literature. Study exposed facts about freelancers. Firstly , it was found that current organizational structure is changing to support labor market and technological changes, this shows sustainable growth in individual contractors, now referred as freelancer. Secondly , literature review shows that the freelancing is rooted back to 1970s and started growing continuously since 1980s. Thirdly , study distinguished  that the entrepreneur is a person who engages service or product of someone’s to establishes a business; whereas a freelancer is a person who engages own-skills to serve client(s), he/she serves multiple clients for multiple job types. Lastly , empirical evidence shows that freelancing is still considered as a new and different area, researchers and policy makers may explore it further.