Creatives have many causes to be optimistic in 2022. Incomes are anticipated to rise, they’re including extra abilities than ever to their resumes, they’re exercising extra selection over the sorts of purchasers they tackle, they usually’re reporting that businesses are extra open to hiring them remotely. All of this spells out elevated alternatives for this world workforce.
The query is, although: is company life nonetheless thought-about aspirational for designers? Our report discovered that solely 15% of designers included being employed at an company as one in all their 5 yr targets.
As industries are hit by the tidal wave of the ‘Nice Resignation,’ designers are reconsidering their place within the conventional company panorama. One in 5 freelancers presently work at an company—and virtually half (45%) of them have thought-about leaving prior to now yr. With the everyday excessive strain related to company work, it could be no coincidence that this shift has occurred in a yr the place 60% of freelancers have created higher work-life steadiness.
Our 2022 Design With out Borders report dives deep into the collective struggles, triumphs and potentialities of some of the numerous and globally accessible industries so far. With insights and opinions from 10,000 freelancers from 144 international locations all over the world, see the yr by means of the eyes of creatives.
