Giganomics: And what don’t you do for a living?

The main idea of this article by Judith Woods is to describe the benefits and disadvantages of portfolio workers – the people who are juggling one-off projects, short-time contracts and assorted consultancies (so-called “gigs”).
Different ideas and different experiences of portfolio workers are mentioned in the text.
One of the benefits is that by working for a variety of employers, no one has complete power over the person to switch work on and or off. …