Postcard from the Future
I think you called it the 'Gig Economy’, people working for themselves and offering their services on a freelance basis. Self-employed tradespeople and subcontractors were as old as the hills, but when it extended to knowledge workers, things started to change. It began with mass homeworking and the realisation that people were just as productive, if not more so, when they were concentrating at home. No more noisy office distractions and time wasted gossiping about football o
