British small businesses using more independent workers
At Net:Work last December Gene Zaino, the president and CEO of MBO Partners, made a bold prediction based on his firm's research: Independent workers will be the majority in the U.S. by 2020.
Whether Zaino's estimate of exactly when freelancers and independent professionals will outnumber regular employees proves correct, the general trend toward a rise in the number of independent workers is hard to deny.


