Riding the Freelance Wave: How Rafiki Empowers the Future of Work
An article from Salt, a global leading recruitment company, highlights key freelance trends for 2025, and it's clear the future of work is here, and it's freelance.
Key Workforce & HR Trends in 2025:
- AI Skills are Booming: Businesses are willing to pay a premium for AI expertise, driving demand for freelance talent. On average, freelancers spend 15% of their time upskilling, compared to just 0.3% of full-time employees, bringing up-to-date specialisation into day-to-day operations.
- Freelance Demand is Surging: Nearly 50% of hiring managers plan to increase their use of freelancers in the next five years, driven by the need for specialised skills and cost-effectiveness.
- Freelancers Value Control and Flexibility: Professionals are increasingly choosing freelance work for career progression, flexibility, and the ability to align with their values.
- Trust in Self: Freelancing allows individuals to diversify income streams and take control of their financial stability, especially in uncertain times.
- Hiring increasingly becomes skill-based, indicative of a task-based future where traditional roles are deconstructed & fractionalised collaboratively. A whopping 81% of companies globally used skills-based hiring in 2024, up from 73% in 2023 and 56% in 2022
Rafiki's Role In The Freelance Economy:
Rafiki is uniquely positioned to empower both talent and businesses to thrive in this evolving landscape. Here's how we align with these key trends:
- Access to AI Talent: Rafiki provides businesses with access to a global network of top-tier AI freelancers, bridging the skills gap and enabling innovation.
- Flexible Talent Solutions: Our platform facilitates seamless collaboration between businesses and freelancers, offering cost-effective and agile talent solutions purpose built for flexible teams and instant, cross-border payments.
- Empowering Independence: We empower talent with the tools and resources they need to manage their freelance careers, from collaboration, subcontracting, and instant payment solutions to access to Rafiki’s Experts In Residence.
- Secure and Compliant: Rafiki offers automated compliance features, including KYC and KYB verification, ensuring secure and trustworthy transactions for both talent and businesses.
Rafiki is committed to fostering a decentralised and empowered independent workforce.
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