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Purpose: The research study provides empirical insights on the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership (EL), entrepreneurial passion for founding (EPF), entrepreneurial bricolage (EB) and project success (PS), in the case of freelancers. The study aims to get a better understanding of whether freelancers, who behave like entrepreneurial leaders, can successfully complete projects through EB. Design/methodology/approach: The study collected data from 209 freelancers through snowball sampling, in two waves, with a time-lag of fourteen days, to better examine the causality of variables. Data were analyzed by Model No. 4 and 7 (i.e. mediation and moderation, respectively) of Process macro. Findings: Drawing on the effectuation theory, the results show that EB mediates the relationship between EL and PS and EPF moderates this relationship. Practical implications: The freelancers can formally establish businesses later, after knowing whether they can complete these new types of projects. These online freelancing platforms can provide special services to freelancers who first want to test their skills on unrelated projects. In sum, the paper suggests that freelancers can be successful entrepreneurial leaders. Originality/value: The EL, EPF, EB and PS are studied in the context of the informal sector, i.e. freelancing, which is the emerging working style in the world. It provides an in-depth understanding of phenomena in freelancers that lacks background literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing interest in freelancing after the 1980s has led to the need to deepen the academic scope. Although there are various studies on freelancing, location-based studies have remained at a basic level. The study aims to identify the factors affecting the location-based career planning of freelancers in the context of OECD countries. In this context, the methodology of the research is a theoretical comparative qualitative analysis based on asymmetric analysis (Fuzzy Set QCA). The adequacy/requirements, configurations and country-specific clusters of effective conditions suitable for self-employment are revealed. According to the research findings, while all variables are found to be sufficient for the freelancing score in a singular sense, the absence of demand for freelancers reveals the absence of demand for the freelancing score as an absolute requirement. Based on the configuration results, specific results are found that could potentially suggest a model for freelancing status (FS) and non-freelancing status (~FS) of countries. Ultimately, the findings are instrumental in identifying the most favorable conditions and countries for freelancers. In this way, the research enables employees to plan their careers by taking into account the conditions that they deem important for them individually. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the concept of freelance (temporary, project employment) within the framework of new approaches to employment and changes in the perception of remote and hybrid forms of employment by society and business after the COVID-19 pandemic. The following segments of the labour market where freelancing is the most common element are considered: copywriting, law, software development, design of buildings and structures, creation of graphic, audio and video content, consulting, provision of expertise, tutoring. The portrait of a freelancer is studied in detail according to such characteristics as the region of residence, sex, average age, the share of “real” freelancers and the share of part-timers, experience of interaction with freelance platforms, tax status, single and team players, the reasons for choosing freelancing as a form of employment, the most valuable component of freelancing, the disadvantages of freelancing as a form of employment and motivation of freelancers. The main methods of promoting freelance services in the digital environment are identified: a portfolio site, active maintenance of a professional profile in social networks and its advertising, registration on aggregator sites, freelance and human-cloud platforms. The main element of the portfolio site is highlighted – the works performed by a freelancer (texts, photographs, graphics and similar materials) – along with the key factors that a freelancer needs to consider when creating and maintaining a portfolio site and the most common mistakes

Background. Remote work has been gaining popularity for a long time. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become a necessity for many people. However, the personality traits of people for whom remote work is suitable are poorly understood. Objectives. The study focuses on the personality traits of successful freelancers working remotely. Study Participants. 184 Freelancers (115 females, 69 males, aged from 14 to 60) were recruited from Advego.com. Freelancers were divided into two groups of beginners and experts, based on the number of tasks completed. Groups were compared with each other. The group of experts was also compared with a group of 98 females (aged from 16 to 72) who were not freelancers. Methods. An empirical study was carried out using a five-factor personality questionnaire by H. Tsuji in the version of A.B. Khromov. Results. Significant differences were found between expert freelancers and women of different professions for the following personality traits: extraversion (p = 0.0001), agreeableness (p = 0.0001), openness to experience (p = 0.0001). The hypothesis that freelancers have a higher level of conscientiousness than non-freelance women was not confirmed. Conclusions. The personality traits of freelancers who are successfully adapted to remote work are revealed including lower levels of extraversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience. The results obtained can be used to select staff for remote work.

Background The significance of innovative work behavior is growing as organizations strive to maintain their competitiveness by hiring freelancer employees. This study aimed to examine how absorptive capability mediates the connections between job motivation, transformational leadership, and innovation work behavior in freelancers working in the oil and gas industry. Methods A quantitative methodology was employed through an online questionnaire, using a random sampling strategy involving 250 respondents. Furthermore, data analysis was performed using structural equation modelling. Results The findings indicate that job motivation and transformational leadership did not have a direct impact on innovation work behavior. However, they did have an indirect beneficial influence mediated by absorptive capability. This study revealed that absorptive skills play a vital role in facilitating the translation of job drive and transformational leadership into innovative work behaviors. Conclusions The practical consequences involve firms embracing transformational leadership and establishing training programs to enhance employees' absorptive potential, thereby promoting innovation. Ultimately, cultivating absorptive skills is crucial for leadership styles and motivational elements to be evident in innovative work behaviors.

Background The significance of innovative work behavior is growing as organizations strive to maintain their competitiveness by hiring freelancer employees. This study aimed to examine how absorptive capability mediates the connections between job motivation, transformational leadership, and innovation work behavior in freelancers working in the oil and gas industry. Methods A quantitative methodology was employed through an online questionnaire, using a random sampling strategy involving 250 respondents. Furthermore, data analysis was performed using structural equation modelling. Results The findings indicate that job motivation and transformational leadership did not have a direct impact on innovation work behavior. However, they did have an indirect beneficial influence mediated by absorptive capability. This study revealed that absorptive skills play a vital role in facilitating the translation of job drive and transformational leadership into innovative work behaviors. Conclusions The practical consequences involve firms embracing transformational leadership and establishing training programs to enhance employees' absorptive potential, thereby promoting innovation. Ultimately, cultivating absorptive skills is crucial for leadership styles and motivational elements to be evident in innovative work behaviors.

Since independence, the Algerian University was among the first universities to propose for students a translation and interpreting degree within the Institute of Translation. Over the years, the Institute has evolved to offer, in addition to the bachelor's degree, a master's and PhD degrees in translation. Once graduated, it is evident that students will try to immerse themselves in a wide-ranging job market. In this regard, we will seek in this article to give an overview of the potential professional opportunities available to students who have recently graduated in the aforesaid discipline, in an Algerian context characterized by the presence on the labor market of salaried translators, official translators, and freelance translators -also called freelancers.

The aim of the article is to analyse the gig economy in terms of the risk of precarisation. The considerations are based on literature review and own research (online survey of a group of 198 freelancers and 182 employees). The author of the article tries to get to know their perspective on financial stability and attitudes towards the risk of precarisation. The final conclusions allow us to assess the extent to which the respondents - freelancers - feel the stability and prospects of their work. For comparison, the same study was also conducted among full-time employees - enabling a comparison of the attitudes and feelings of both groups. The final conclusions provide guidance for managers and employees/gigs. Empirical research was preceded by theoretical considerations. The limitations of the study result from the inherent weaknesses of survey research (respondents may provide subjective or inaccurate statements). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the challenges and strategies of Indonesian musicians in establishing sustainable careers from psychosocial experiences. The study utilizes Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) on six professional musicians with over ten years of experience. This study adopts a qualitative research design to explore the psychosocial experiences of professional performing musicians regarding their sustainable careers. The findings reveal the importance of adaptation, personal growth, maintaining passion, and creativity. The study concludes that happiness, health, and productivity are crucial for career sustainability, emphasizing the interrelation of personal identity, social support, and career dynamics in the music industry. The research highlights the need for musicians to navigate psychosocial challenges effectively to build long-term, fulfilling careers. This research reveals that in building a happy, healthy, and productive career, performing musicians require a combination of professional adaptation, maintaining passion, creativity, and managing self-identity and artistic integrity. The importance of balancing work and personal life, as well as the vital role of support networks, especially in the face of dynamic music industry challenges, also emerges as key factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prezentul studiu examinează caracteristicile inerente a unei femei-freelancer modern, care lucrează de la distanță și, de asemenea, descrie dificultățile cu care se confruntă femeile-freelanceri astăzi, inclusiv problemele de gestionare a timpului. Articolul examinează schimbările, care au avut loc în domeniul relațiilor de muncă a femeilor ce lucrează de la distanță după pandemia de COVID-19. Autorul analizează datele obținute în cadrul unui sondaj sociologic, realizat în 2023, în format online, folosind platforma Google Forms, în rândul femeilor din mai multe țări ale lumii. Analiza include aspecte precum atitudinea față de munca la distanță, statutul de lucru al respondentelorexistența și numărul de copii, originea computerului folosit pentru muncă și alte momente cheie, legate de organizarea spațiului de lucru, precum și dificultățile cu care se confruntă participantele la cercetare atunci când lucrează de la distanță.

Many studies have analysed the violence to which sex workers (SWs) are exposed in countries where prostitution is criminalised, but violence in sex work when it is a legal and freelance activity has seldom been studied. This study is based on non-systematic participant observation and 14 interviews conducted with cisgender and transgender freelance SWs exercising their profession in Switzerland. Findings show that all the participants had been victims of work-related offences and that their victimisation can be interpreted through the updated version of Routine Activities Theory. Few reported the victimisation to the police although in general, they said that they appreciated the Swiss police. Most common perpetrators were customers, passers-by, and colleagues. The places where offences occurred can be defined as risky settings. The police, the SWs themselves and other actors such as social workers are identified as controllers, while the legal framework and NGOs themselves can be labelled as super-controllers. Our study suggests that public policies should not be limited simply to regulating prostitution, but also continuing to ensure SW's safety by developing evidence-based prevention strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Influencer marketing has recently become the best marketing strategy, widely embraced, from local professionals to multinational companies advertising and building brand awareness online. At the heart of influencer marketing is the influencer, an entity whose definition is composed of a grid of criteria it must meet rather than an immutable description. However, in this grid of criteria, no condition has crystallised as to the legal form of the influencer: could it be a natural person or must it be a legal person, is it of a liberal nature or could it be an employee? Besides this main actor, an entire influencer marketing industry has emerged, involving the participation of secondary characters. The heterogeneity of influencer marketing business models gives rise to legitimate questions such as: what types of legal entities, silhouettes shaped by fictions of law, can be found or even should exist, and what are the premises of the contractual relationships between them?

The article examines the processes that are taking place in the modern labor market, and considers in detail such an innovative flexible form of employment organization as freelancing. The prerequisites for its formation and features are determined, taking into account modern economic conditions. A model of freelancer’s work has been developed, taking into account the properties of activity in the field under study. The article analyzes the regulatory acts that have an impact on the regulation of freelancing in Ukraine and identifies the specifics of appropriate legal support abroad. The dynamics of attracting employees in the field of freelancing in Ukraine and the most common areas of activity among freelancers are evaluated. The specified sources of customer search by freelancers that help create their workload. The advantages and disadvantages of a flexible form of self-employment are highlighted, which significantly affect the specifics of planning and organizing the work of freelance employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The digital transformation of industry is driving the advance of agile work structures and, in particular, home office working. This article examines the question of what effect the physical distance of employees from the company has on its productivity and innovation potential, and what challenges are posed to a remote leadership.

This paper takes Friedrich Engels 200th birthday on 28 November 2020 as occasion to ask: How relevant are Friedrich Engels’s works in the age of digital capitalism? It shows that Engels class-struggle oriented theory can and should inform 21st century social science and digital social research. Based on a reading of Engels’s works, the article discusses how to think of scientific socialism as critical social science today, presents a critique of computational social science as digital positivism, engages with foundations of digital labour analysis, the analysis of the international division of digital labour, updates Engels’s Condition of the Working Class in England in the age of digital capitalism, analyses the role of trade unions and digital class struggles in digital age, analyses the social murder of workers in the COVID-19 crisis, engages with platform co-operatives, digital commons projects and public service Internet platforms are concrete digital utopias that point beyond digital capital(ism). Engels’s analysis is updated for critically analysing the digital conditions of the working class today, including the digital labour of hardware assemblers at Foxconn and Pegatron, the digital labour aristocracy of software engineers at Google, online freelance workers, platform workers at capitalist platform corporations such as Uber, Deliveroo, Fiverr, Upwork, or Freelancer, and the digital labour of Facebook users. Engels’s 200th birthday reminds us of the class character of digital capitalism and that we need critical digital social science as a new form of scientific socialism.

Previous studies have shown that online labor platforms want to have their cake and eat it too by implementing human resource management (HRM) activities to control gig workers who ought to be autonomous in their work. Our empirical study shows that using HRM activities to control gig workers creates institutional complexity and explores the strategies adopted by platform firms to address this complexity. Based on case studies of two meal-delivery platforms in the Netherlands (Uber Eats and Deliveroo), we identify freelance-related HRM activities that create tensions between the market and corporation logics. We show that online labor platforms rely on response strategies that integrate/balance, rather than rule out competing logics, including creating novel forms of HRM outsourcing, HRM devolution, and covert HRM implementation to control gig workers while simultaneously upholding their freelance status. Furthermore, we show that these response strategies are enabled by information technologies and the marketplaces that online labor platforms create, allowing for more experimental and dynamic approaches to HRM than so far theorized. The main implication of these findings is that the HRM activities for gig workers are simultaneously the source of, and the solution to, the institutional complexity associated with HRM for controlling freelance gig workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article takes into consideration classic approaches to the interpretation of the concept of «business process», the basis of which is the transformation as a result of the input-to-output business process. Based on the upgraded scheme of the business process, its essence is defined taking into account the creation of value for the internal or external client. The typology of scientific approaches to improving the efficiency of the enterprise’s business processes is presented, which is supplemented by the need to optimize the use of the resources involved. This article also explores the concept of freelance resources that allow enterprises to redefine their relationship as an employer with workers to improve its own performance as a business process system. Features of the remote form of labor organization are considered. Tendencies in attracting freelancers both in Ukraine and the world are analyzed. The issue of the education level, gender inequality and age distribution in the sphere of freelancing is considered. It is identified that a domestic freelancer is usually a man under the age of 35 with higher education, and the rapid development of freelancing in Ukraine is caused by demographic changes, new technologies and the transformation of the working paradigm. The income of freelancers, their average monthly earnings, compared to full-time employees, is specified, on the basis of which the authors specify the possibility of saving wages for enterprises attracting freelance resources. The main set of business processes of the sales department of a wholesale enterprise is researched, on the basis of which the technical possibility of attracting freelance resources into the implementation of almost all business processes of the department is identified, but of expediency are only those that involve direct contact with buyers. The terms of implementation of the freelancer’s work potential, features and problems of remote employment are analyzed. Using the system of key performance indicators for the financial and non-financial valuation has identified the positive effect created by freelancing sales specialists for the wholesaler according to all the indicators proposed.

Background: The significance of innovative work behavior is growing as organizations strive to maintain their competitiveness by hiring freelancer employees. This study aimed to examine how absorptive capability mediates the connections between job motivation, transformational leadership, and innovation work behavior in freelancers working in the oil and gas industry., Methods: A quantitative methodology was employed through an online questionnaire, using a random sampling strategy involving 250 respondents. Furthermore, data analysis was performed using structural equation modelling., Results: The findings indicate that job motivation and transformational leadership did not have a direct impact on innovation work behavior. However, they did have an indirect beneficial influence mediated by absorptive capability. This study revealed that absorptive skills play a vital role in facilitating the translation of job drive and transformational leadership into innovative work behaviors., Conclusions: The practical consequences involve firms embracing transformational leadership and establishing training programs to enhance employees' absorptive potential, thereby promoting innovation. Ultimately, cultivating absorptive skills is crucial for leadership styles and motivational elements to be evident in innovative work behaviors., Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed., (Copyright: © 2024 Sinaga E et al.)

The actual and potential impacts of technological disruption on established organisations and industries have received considerable attention. Yet, impacts on individual workers and professional groups, including in the creative sector that is at the forefront of disruption, remain under-examined. This study draws on in-depth interviews with professional photographers to explore how the convergence of technological innovations, digital media and crowdsourcing platform businesses have changed the nature of photographic work and employment in the industry, and how photographers have responded. The findings reveal that disruptive innovations have profoundly altered labour market dynamics, the value ascribed to photography services and the professional identity of photographers themselves. The implications for workers, including self-employed freelancers, are significant, especially in terms of social and economic opportunities and rights and protections. More broadly, the study contributes to the emerging literature on technology, disruption and the future of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highly skilled and qualified workers represent a growing group among the solo self-employed across numerous countries. They provide knowledge-intensive services in different occupational, organisational, spatial and temporal contexts and often in hybrid forms of work and employment. Understanding the heterogeneity within this labour market group requires more knowledge and awareness of its characteristics and peculiarities, laying the foundation for the development of clearer definitions and distinctions. The terms used to describe this labour market group are manifold and often not clearly defined and delimited. A better understanding of the actors helps to develop more efficient analytical but also policy-aimed implications to support this group with directly targeted actions. In this paper, we compare the terms used most commonly and often synonymously in the literature—Independent Contractor, Independent Professional (IPro), and Freelancer—and try to point out the differences and similarities between them. It becomes apparent that these terms are not identical, but rather refer to different concepts, namely the business side, the occupational dimension and the work relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The types of remote employment (distance work and freelance) have been considered. Directions of use of modern information technologies at the organization of remote employment have been indicated and their developed characteristic has been given. The activity of freelancers has been described in detail. The mechanisms of functioning of international online labor exchanges and Russian platforms have been revealed. The results of a study on the practice of remote work in modern domestic organizations have been adduced. According to the results of the study, conclusions have been made about the areas of remote employment, its advantages and disadvantages for the organization and employees; about the software and hardware used by employers; about the problems of regulatory regulation of remote employment; about the competencies of remote workers and freelancers.

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• Learning work routines how to be productive is the key economic benefit. • Experiences of homeworking, social isolation, uncertainty and autonomy are shared. • Digital platforms create predictability for meeting those with similar experiences. • The purpose is not to facilitate interactions, collaboration and innovation. • Coworkers commit to the creation of an appealing work and social atmosphere. Coworking has increased in popularity in the digital knowledge economy with the rise of independent professional workers who often work from home and lack the social relations that provide feedback, referrals or social support. Rather than studying coworking as a new spatial, social and economic way of working in designated coworking spaces, this study explores coworking in residential homes – the earliest self-organised form of coworking that has received little attention although dedicated home-based coworking networks have developed since. Based on intensive fieldwork material from coworking groups of freelancers across Europe who meet in each other's homes, we explore why people meet to cowork in homes – when at the same time coworking is driven by the social isolation of working alone in the 'home office' as emphasised in previous research on coworking spaces. Our findings highlight the need of freelance workers to learn how to be productive and maintain productivity. The shared experience of homeworking and awareness of the challenges of personalised professional work create cognitive proximity in home-based coworking. Coworkers commit to the production of an affective atmosphere which is facilitated by digital platforms, the role of hosts and the home environment. We discuss the implications of our findings for understanding coworking more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper explores the involvement of freelancers in requirement engineering activities to continuously innovating the value propositions and utilizing their expertise in various requirement engineering tasks. This paper reports the case study conducted with the startups that involve freelancers for the requirement engineering activities. The findings are then compared with the literature to explore the freelancer supported requirement engineering domain. Results indicate that the freelancers could help innovate value proposition by providing different perspectives of the global segments and also expertise in executing requirement engineering activities. The freelancers have varying levels of involvement in requirement engineering activities depending on on startup contexts and is highly challenged by various inhibitors. The inhibitors include difficulty to select freelancers optimally, ensuring their long term association for continuous rework arising because of continuous learnings in the market, building trust, mechanism to integrate their perspective, establishing communication, negotiations and strategic pricings. However, there is a need to optimally establish the freelancer involvement from beginning of the startup life cycle with a promise for long term benefits in exchange for their trustworthy and accurate perspectives, which is harder to get by involving crowds of customers due to resource limitations. Further research is required to investigate how freelancers could represent the samples of globally distributed customer segments as input source of information on one side and on another side become startup team representatives to establish direct interactions with global customer segments.

The body is historically traversed by subjectivation processes that are different each time. Currently, it has developed according to the imperatives of neoliberal rationality, which is a specific configuration of capitalism that comes from flexibility with high performance and productivity. In this scenario, the subject tends to think capitalist values as natural and indispensable for your life. An example of this is the professional called freelancer, who works without any guarantee of employment relationship and receives per day or per hour worked. Captured by the values disseminated by neoliberal rationality, this professional becomes the personification of the "intermediary of oneself", placing oneself as someone flexible and who seeks to improve performance. This article aimed to understand how the body of the freelance worker is connected to this neoliberal rationality, strengthening it. Adopting a qualitative, descriptive, and field methodology semi structured scripts were combined with three freelance workers. The data present how demands fall on the worker's body so that they develop new features and utilities compatible with such values. Using communication technologies, the worker is called upon to put on stage their social and affective relationships in order to expand production. At the end of the study, it was possible to verify that the freelancer became a kind of model for contemporary work as it connects itself to neoliberal rationality, reproducing and reinforcing its assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes Friedrich Engels 200th birthday on 28 November 2020 as occasion to ask: How relevant are Friedrich Engels's works in the age of digital capitalism? It shows that Engels class-struggle oriented theory can and should inform 21st century social science and digital social research. Based on a reading of Engels's works, the article discusses how to think of scientific socialism as critical social science today, presents a critique of computational social science as digital positivism, engages with foundations of digital labour analysis, the analysis of the international division of digital labour, updates Engels's Condition of the Working Class in England in the age of digital capitalism, analyses the role of trade unions and digital class struggles in digital age, analyses the social murder of workers in the COVID-19 crisis, engages with platform co-operatives, digital commons projects and public service Internet platforms are concrete digital utopias that point beyond digital capital(ism). Engels's analysis is updated for critically analysing the digital conditions of the working class today, including the digital labour of hardware assemblers at Foxconn and Pegatron, the digital labour aristocracy of software engineers at Google, online freelance workers, platform workers at capitalist platform corporations such as Uber, Deliveroo, Fiverr, Upwork, or Freelancer, and the digital labour of Facebook users. Engels's 200th birthday reminds us of the class character of digital capitalism and that we need critical digital social science as a new form of scientific socialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is aimed at developing applied aspects of the process of organizational support to attract internal and external resources of formation and development of the employer’s brand using the instrumentarium of multicriteria analysis. The article considers attributes of potential employer for candidates for positions and value offers of the leading world companies, current and prospective purposes of employer’s branding in leading companies of the world, peculiarities of functioning of labor market in Ukraine, the key factors of attractiveness of employers, the needs of employees and the extent of their satisfaction with employers. The system of criteria is formed and the most expedient alternatives for the companies in terms of attraction of internal and external resources for formation of the employer’s brand are allocated. Prospects for further researches in this direction are analyzing of the basic metrics of the projects of companies-outsourcers on formation and promotion of the brand of employer of the companies of customers, schematizing the decision making process concerning reasonable selection of companies of outsourcers and formation of such a system of criteria for the implementation of the choice, which includes the requirements for both the company-outsourcer and the future project.

Some businesses gained from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the overall effect on demand for IT work is negative due to the recession. We may recover from it, once we can handle the medical problems, but some changes will probably stay. One of them is the shift from regular to temporary work in IT because businesses seek more flexibility. This should be accompanied by regulation that prohibits the worsening of work conditions of IT workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article is aimed at substantiating the perspectivity of information systems and technologies as a direction of the State support for the conditionally depressive regions. The article clarifies the assumption that an increase in the number of freelancers in region (even evaders from taxation), causes the growth of both the regional enterprises’ revenues and the tax revenues to budgets. Such freelancers become customers of works, services and goods, and, accordingly, employers for other persons who work officially. The State support for the concentration of such persons in the region contributes to reducing the «brain drain» abroad. The article substantiates prospective directions of the State support for the conditionally depressive regions by means of information systems, the basic elements of which are IT-specialists; as well as economic expediency of priority of the State support for the regions with presence of high level of unemployment of working population. The ways of solution of contradictions between the State and the freelancer in the part of payment of taxes and accrual of the insurance period for the future pension have been suggested. The ultimate goal of the State support for the conditionally depressive regions with use of information systems has been defined, which is to achieve the stage of the multiplied effect of growth of income of economic entities and tax revenues to the budget due to the implementation of innovation projects as result of the concentration of IT specialists in region.

The article considers epistemological, sociological, historical roots and reasons for co-working phenomenon and shows stages of developing the forms of creative cooperation among professionals. The author proves that new forms of cooperation in society are feasible only in case new space developed by designer is organized. While discussing opportunities of remote interaction with the employer the author underlines the fact that in such structure as co-working attention should be paid to creative environment, constructive atmosphere, ergonomics of work places and interiors in order to create conditions for fruitful activity of their creative workers and freelancers.