“The labor market is changing. Contracting services is preferred to full-time jobs in many situations, due to flexibility, autonomy and control. People use more and more the technology of interconnected labor market to decide where, when and who they work for. Romania is also facing an increasing interest in interconnected labor. More and more Romanians in the sectors of IT, design, writing, translation and editing of texts in foreign languages are present on the global freelance platforms and their number is expected to increase as more and more professionals are discovering the advantages of entrepreneurship,” Simion said in a statement.
PwC representative said that the new generation of entrepreneurial companies in Romania will be more and more opened to the idea of hiring freelancers for punctual projects, thus maintaining a thin personnel scheme and keeping costs under control.
On the other hand, Simion said that such a scenario would question the future social protection associated with jobs, such as pensions, social aid, social security.
According to a PwC global survey, the market of interconnected labor is currently representing only 2% of the total recruitment market.
PWC survey “The Future of Work” shows that nearly half of HR professionals (46%) expect at least 20% of their workforce to be made up of contractors or temporary workers by 2022. Nearly one third of the companies (31%) are building their talent strategies around the rise of the portfolio career, hiring a diverse mix of people on an affordable, ad hoc basis.