What is a freelancer?

     87% of people who have started freelancing do not regret their decision. If you are here, you are thinking about it very seriously. Good news, you've come to the right place! We will try to support you at the start of your activity.

     But before going any further, I suggest seeing together what a self-employed? A self-employed person is a person who carries out economic activity on his own account. Unlike the employee, he is autonomous in the organization of his work and not is in a situation of subordination towards his employer. In short, the self-employed person is his own boss. It's this autonomy and this freedom that is at the heart of self-employment. Self-employed is said freelancer, and the etymology of the word freelancer says a lot about its meaning. The term refers to knights without allegiance who lent their know-how in the handling of arms to the Lord the highest bidder. “Free” meaning “free” and “launches” referring to the knight's weapon. Today, the freelancer has changed arms, he traded the handling of the sword for other skills and other tools, but the principle remains the same.

     IT, communication, advice: today, self-employment almost concerns all professions. Depending on their profile, workers, self-employed people have goals and ambitions very varied.

     Between the self-employed today renowned micro-entrepreneur, who is looking for an additional income, and the expert consultant which works with multinationals, self-employment covers a large number of realities. As such, work should not be confused independent and jobbing, which is called also work on demand. The jobber carries out one-off missions, most often thanks to platforms of connections, in order to create additional income. He must also declare his activity and usually does, under the diet micro-enterprise, which requires fewer administrative procedures. But why do companies recruit self-employed workers? Simply to meet a growing need great agility. The company regularly needs additional strengths specific to the accomplishment of a particular project. The self-employed person brings a look external, objective, and impartial to the company in which he performs his mission. Use freelancer workers also allow companies to regulate their payroll optimally and thus better control their costs and their margin. It's a win-win relationship. To condition that the client considers the self-employed person as a business leader, and not as a disguised employee.

  Faced with an ever-greater need for agility and with the digital boom, work independently is a real underlying trend in the economic landscape. In order to carry out his activity, the worker, independent must choose a status and declare to the competent bodies. He is free to organize himself as he sees fit to carry out the mission because he does not have of a relationship of subordination to his client.