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The Future is Freelance is a collaborative event series, hosted by Sarah Duran, for stakeholders from all levels of the freelance ecosystem.

Next Forum
How Can We Prepare the Next Generation of Freelancers?
May 6, 2025 9am MST/4pm GMT

We'll collectively explore the following questions:

How does one “learn” how to freelance?
What are the conditions that allow the next generation of freelancers to thrive?
How can the global economy prepare for the continued rise of flexible talent?

Who is it for?

Freelancers
Coaches and content creators who support freelancers
Community and advocacy leaders
Platform and agency founders
Tool and solution creators

With special guests:

Matt Dowling, Founder, Freelancer Club
Eryn Peters, Co-Creator, AI Maturity Index (aka Yours Truly 😉)
Rafael Espinal, Executive Director, Freelancers Union
Elliott Williams, Strategic Storyteller

🌎️ The World Is Your Office 🌎️

Well, well well. Guess who’s cool enough to be on a pre-release PR list? Me!

Harvard Business Review invited me to review a pre-release of "The World Is Your Office: How Work From Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation" by Prithwiraj Choudhury (which JUST came out this week), and I was honestly skeptical. As someone who clocked five years as a digital nomad across 45 countries pre-pandemic (yes, before it was cool, I'm that hipster), I thought "what could this possibly teach me about remote work that I don't already know?"

Turns out, quite a lot! 👵 Back in my day we were entering countries on tourist visas and figuring things out on the fly. Now, organizations are struggling with the actual complexities of global teams and regulatory complexities. This book brilliantly tackles the organizational perspective – how companies like GitLab implement fully-remote policies while navigating tax residency triggers, compliance issues, and legislative hurdles across borders. It's not just theoretical either – Choudhury provides concrete case studies and implementation strategies that enterprise-sized organizations can actually use.

In our post-pandemic reality with better tech infrastructure and a new generation demanding location flexibility, this book arrives at exactly the right moment. It bridges the gap between the hacky, sometimes questionable approaches of early digital nomads (guilty as charged!) and the structured, compliant frameworks companies need to truly embrace global talent. If your organization is thinking about expanding beyond traditional office walls, this is your essential roadmap. Definitely worth the read!

⭐️ Community Spotlight ⭐️

This week, Elina Jutelyte kicked off an important discussion about diversifying the share of voice in the “future of freelancing”.

The post reflects the sentiment that prompted the creation of this very newsletter. I felt that the majority of thought leaders of a certain age, likely male, usually American, and took on a fairly academic tone. I wanted to diversify the share of voice by creating a new and different one!

It’s not often that you see a post take off with as many comments as there are reactions, but this one did it. It turned into a fantastic crowd-sourced list of women shaping the future of freelancing. I encourage you to go follow each one in the original post and the comments to diversify your feeds.

Why does freelancing industry have a male face? 🤔

Every time I look, the ”future of freelance” is being shared...by men.
How to run a solo business? Explained by men.
How to price your freelance services? Taught by men.
Keynotes at conferences? Mostly men.
Dominant voices on social? Again, men. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7320412321233723392

🏆️ It’s also a great time to remind you - IF YOU KNOW OF AMAZING WOMEN IN DIGITAL (you should, come on) let’s recognize and celebrate them.

It’s time for the annual ISG Women in Digital Awards, and the deadline for nominations is fast approaching on May 13th.

Here are the pages to nominate for

🌎️ Americas
🌍️ EMEA
🌏️ APAC & India

Note: I won the Digital Innovator category last year and will be a judge in EMEA this year - so I want to see your names in that application list!

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Quiet Cracking noun | FUTURE OF WORK TERM

the erosion of workplace satisfaction from within. The feeling of disconnection, of not being heard, seen, or supported with growth or learning opportunities leading to disengagement, decreased productivity, and eventually, attrition.

_{Related terms: quiet quitting, employee enggement, the great resignation}

That’s all for now, pals. See ya next week.

Eryn

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