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Journal Article
Petriglieri G., Ashford S. J., Wrzesniewski A. (2018). Thriving in the Gig Economy: How Successful Freelancers Manage the Uncertainty Harvard Business Review, 96(2), (pp140-143).
Approximately 150 million people in North America and Western Europe now work as independent contractors, most of them in knowledge-intensive industries and creative occupations. The authors studied 65 of them in depth and learned that although they feel a host of personal, social, and economic anxieties without the cover and support of a traditional employer, they also say they chose independence and wouldn’t give up the benefits that come with it. Many of these workers have created a “holding environment” for themselves by establishing four connections: