Why Hire A Freelancer When Firms Work Better?

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Being a human being comes with the imperative to be focused on being cost effective. Going with the flow of the same imperative we are nowadays more drawn to employ methodologies that seem to us to be both effective and easy on our pockets. This however is sometimes an arguable barter. Would you compromise quality for cost if that unnerved the balance of your enterprise’s growth? The answer would almost instantly be a no!

Employing freelancers to do what firms are supposed to, is such an uncanny barter. Let us focus on the constructive nodes of this argument-

How do freelancers ply their trade?

There are two methods of operation of a freelancer

1. Dedicated Freelancing
2. Disengaged Freelancing

Dedicated freelancing is when a freelancer commits to working for you exclusively (i.e. he does not take up any other project from any other employer) and works till your task is completed after which he is free to switch over to any other commitments.

Disengaged freelancing however is the more normative method where a freelancer is free to work simultaneously for as many employers as he wants. It is however to note that despite all his other engagements, he still has to complete your work within the due deadline as agreed upon.

When Does A Firm Score Over A Freelancer?

Overcoming Repetitive Ideas:

While one can argue that even a freelancer is bound by the constraints of deadlines, and therefore there should be no possible delays in delivering your project to you beyond the same, one must also realise that a freelancer however is switching between tasks on an as-is basis. Though the possibilities of the imaginary world is limitless, there is a limit to the capability of the human mind to switch between separate thoughts repeatedly. This leads sometimes to the pieces of thoughts and ideas overlapping and getting repeated in two separate projects, which leaves you with a high chance that there are some ideas in your project by your expert freelancer are the same as some ideas that he put into the last project that was under him; sometimes unwillingly.

Reducing the Constraints of Time:

While even freelancers are bugged by time constraints, it is a no-brainer to realise that a freelancer, is not backed by the manpower which a firm has at its disposal. Therefore, it becomes difficult for independent developers to tackle large scale projects sometimes. This problem is overcome by the presence of many minds working and incorporating many ideas together, as in a firm.

Minimizing Hassles:

If you have to start working from scratch, you will need to focus on the many aspects of a web-based project which involves- design, web-development, SEO, content, structuring, idea-incorporation and a lot more. At this point, one has to realize that a web-page designer is not the person who you precisely want to aid you in SEO, a content writer is not someone you can also hire for designing your page. Thus, you have to hire separate people for separate tasks.

While you may not realize, freelancing is only cheap when you want it to work only the small nitty-gritties of your entire online presence. In a scenario where everything has to be managed by freelancers, the cost spikes up, much the same was as buying a hundred sachets of shampoo is costlier than buying a big bottle of it. Hiring freelancers for all the work is a huge discrepancy on your budget and comes with the problems of the freelancers communicating effectively with each other. In a firm however the specialists dedicated to the separate departments are bound by years of experience working together (or at the very least in environments that demand communication and cooperation). A firm also has the advantage of its employees all brainstorming together for your project as a group since their collective reputation is at stake, meanwhile this challenge towards collective reputation does not exist in the case of freelancers.

Maximizing Quality:

In a closely knit firm however one generally finds (along with a greater manpower), comprehensive communication between several employees managing different departments. Every employee in a firm is dedicated to his particular work so while a freelancer is managing all your needs alone, a firm has specialists dedicated to each part of your project with the most incisive of details possible. This means more attention to details than just focusing on the exoskeleton, so your work remains flawless.

Ability to Research:

Research and development in the case of freelancers is a bargain of their own time and resource. They more often than not consider them to be unnecessary diversions from their stream of thought which eats into their available time. Software development firms in this regard are more flexible. They are better abled at research since firms are always expected to have a dedicated research team that does the ‘digging into details’. To firms working on the project as well as simultaneously researching to improve upon the same isn’t time consuming. That amount of research may not be possible by individual developers as they don’t have a research team at their aid.

Security of Exchange:

One major area where a software development firm is better suited to your work than a freelancer is the reliability of security. A firm can keep all the client-data, projects and details confidential. They can deal with separate clients separately without overlapping or interlinking their work.

Where To And Where Not-To Employ Freelancers:

The trend of hiring freelancers is showing a sparkling increase. Unfortunately, many employers misinterpret their use and hire them into projects that aren’t specifically cut-out to be apt for freelance hands.

A freelancer is cost effective when he has to work only on a part of your entire project. Hence hiring a firm to mobilize a small tweak in your website is mundane, and one should in such a case definitely pursue hiring a freelancer. But if the same small tweak is a business secret, providing access to a freelancer into your secret is a strong adversity.

One should also hire a freelancer when there is a compulsive strain on the budget required, to do so. But one must also note that the growth of one’s enterprise could be better scalable had he invested a little more and opted for a firm. Furthermore, as is very evident from the discussions above, a firm is an affirmative ‘go-to’ in cases of one having to completely revamp, build again or develop his online presence for the first time as in such cases a firm is both cost effective and more efficient.