Freelance as an Adaptative Form of Youth to the Labor Market in a Рeriod of Pandemia

Abstract

The authors see the relevance of presented work in the change in preferred forms of employment in the context of the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world. Indeed, due to the loss of a “standard” place of work or the increasing role of self-preserving behaviour, many today have switched to non-standard types of employment — freelancing and “remote work”. The purpose of this article is to examine the prospects for the development of freelancing after the pandemic. During the research, we used the methods of formal logic: analysis and synthesis, as well as sociological methods: the method of content analysis and Internet polling. Based on the results of the study, the authors concluded the existence of objective and subjective factors associated with global and country lockdowns, which had a somewhat contradictory effect on the activities of freelancers.