The Rise of Global Digital Freelancing
Source: Ty Francis 2015 saw the rise of a new breed of professional within the digital industry. Freelancers and outsourcing work is nothing new in the fast paced environment of a digital agency, but many young professionals have taken a new approach to freelancing, paying for their travels around the world with remote work for agencies and businesses in the UK. We can track this trend back to the UK itself, with hundreds of tech workers leaving London for more affordable and friendly digital environments in areas such as Bristol, Birmingham, and Brighton. It was also commonplace for a Birmingham or Brighton web agency to hire remote workers from London who had the experience but didn’t want to leave the capital. The philosophy soon grew and digital freelancers begun taking their remote work elsewhere, mainly outside of the UK. We get a glimpse of what this sort of profession may entail from an article in The Telegraph . Anna Hart, who used to work in Hackney as ...