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Freelance or Full-Time...Who should you hire first?

Name: Freelance or Full-Time...Who should you hire first?
Uploaded: 2022-06-07T22:22:52+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker discusses the strategic choice between hiring freelancers and full‑time employees for a new or uncertain role. They argue…

7 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker discusses the strategic choice between hiring freelancers and full‑time employees for a new or uncertain role. They argue that freelancers provide a low‑risk “margin to mess up,” allowing a company to test the need for a position over a 3‑to‑6‑month period without the commitment and potential waste of a full‑time hire. This flexibility lets founders determine whether the work is a short‑term project, an ongoing need, or warrants a permanent employee, thereby avoiding the cost and disruption of hiring someone full‑time only to discover the role isn’t needed after a short time.

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Honestly, there's no right or wrong in terms of full-time or freelancers. I think in the beginning what freelancers give you is the, the margin to fuck up, right? Which is like, you don't know if you're hiring the right person. You don't know how long you're going to need them. You don't know if this is a project or an ongoing job because you've never done this before, right? And so you're not sure. And so I think that what they give you is the freedom to figure out what you actually need. And if, you know, if you have this person in place for, say, 3 to 6 months, you can decide, hey, you Maybe I do need someone full-time, or hey, maybe I just do wanna keep it a freelancer, but either way, the downside is much less than bringing someone in and hiring them full-time as a W employee, only to find out within like 2 weeks you don't actually need that person. And so I think in the beginning it allows you the flexibility to fuck up and not feel so bad about yourself and not have it impact others negatively.