This is, we are constantly told, the age of the freelancer and the entrepreneur. In the U.K., the number of start-ups passed the 600,000-mark – a record, while official statistics suggest that the number of workers classified as freelancers has grown steadily since 2011, from 1.4 million to 1.88 million. The situation is little different in the U.S., traditionally a hot-bed of entrepreneurial activity. Indeed, a study by the software company Intuit predicted in 2010 that by 2020 40% of U.S. workers would be freelance.
