What's the difference between freelance and flexible employment?

1. Different working methods:

1. Flexible employment: laid-off and unemployed people engage in various temporary laborers such as community convenience service, housekeeping service, logistics service of enterprises and institutions individually or in the form of streets and communities. It does not include individual industrial and commercial households that have obtained business licenses and employees of private enterprises that have established labor relations.

2. Freelance: Find your own job under your own guidance, often but not always working at home.

Second, the meaning is different:

1. Flexible employment: the general name of various employment forms that are different from the traditional mainstream employment methods based on industrialization and modern factory system in terms of working hours, income, workplace, insurance benefits and labor relations.

2. Freelance occupation: a mental worker (writer, editor, accountant, etc.) or a service provider, a person who does not belong to any organization, and a person who engages in a certain occupation without making a long-term commitment to any employer.

3. Different types and forms:

There are mainly the following types of flexible employment forms: informal sector employment, that is, employment and employment forms whose labor standards (working conditions, working hours, wages, insurance and welfare benefits), production organization management and labor relations operation, etc. are not up to the standards of general enterprises, mainly referring to small enterprises, micro enterprises and family workshops.

In China, there are three types of freelancers:

The first type is small businessmen, such as owners of individual retail stores, snack bars, printing shops and decoration companies.

The second category is salesmen without basic salary, such as life insurance consultants, real estate agents, advertising agencies and direct sellers.

The third category is professionals, such as photographers, patent agents, lawyers, accountants, dentists, technical consultants, management consultants, plumbers, electricians, hairdressers, artists and so on.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Freelance

Baidu Encyclopedia-Freelance