10 Lessons Learned in 10 Years SCRIBERS[HUB]
This year, SCRIBERS[HUB] turns 10. To mark the anniversary, we’re sharing one lesson each month from a decade of matching brilliant minds with demanding briefs.
Insight #7: Freelance Doesn’t Have to Mean Temporary.
For years, freelance support was often treated as something you brought in when things got busy. A project came up, somebody went on leave, a deadline was looming. Find a freelancer, get the job done, move on.
We still get those calls, of course. But over the last few years, we’ve seen another model become more common: companies deliberately building freelancers into the way their teams work.
A specialist who joins for a few days every month. A writer who knows the company well enough to work almost like an extension of the internal team. Sometimes an entire group of external experts brought together for a particular area of work.
Part of that change came from necessity. Recruiting the perfect person, full-time and in the right location, can take months… if that person exists at all.
But companies have also become much more open to asking a different question: do we actually need to hire someone permanently to have their expertise permanently available?
We’ve seen some of our own matches grow from a single project into collaborations lasting years.
Ten years ago, freelance often meant temporary. Today, it can simply mean a different way of building a team. Has the way your company works with freelancers changed?
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