For one week this month, a team of contractors working with umbrella companies are banding together to promote freelancing in the UK with the new ‘7 Days in June’ project, it was recently reported.
The new project will see a creative tam shoot seven short films in order to bring awareness to how positive the impact is on the worldwide business landscape from the 1.6 million-strong freelancer presence both at home and abroad, thanks to the support of PCG, a freelance trade body. The seven short films, once completed, will be individually released in the run up to 21 November, which is National Freelancers Day in the UK.
There will be several different subjects explored across the seven videos, such as how someone would make the decision to take contracting work instead of a permanent position or how companies can benefit from hiring self-the employed. The latter reason is likely to resonate quite strongly with employers, as the economic outlook in the UK from both a double-dip recession and fears surrounding the rapidly developing eurozone crisis has sent confidence levels plummeting and causing many firms to scale back their hiring of permanent workers, even as they had been understood to have been much more likely to hire in increased numbers as recently as a month ago.
7 Days in June is the brainchild of Rob Edward, who says that while freelance working is a vital and growing aspect of the landscape of worldwide business, there is much more that can be done to encourage more workers to undertake contracting and other freelancing activities.
