People On Twitter Shred Study Claiming Millennials Are Deciding To Freelance

People on Twitter are eviscerating an article and a tweet accompanying it that claim millennials , the largest demographic in the American workforce, are increasingly deciding to freelance.

Millennials are now the largest demographic in the American workforce, and theyre increasingly deciding to freelance:

42% now freelance, up from 38% in 2014. https://t.co/l4Dlz1vppg

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Millennials are now the largest demographic in the American workforce, and theyre increasingly deciding to freelance:

42% now freelance, up from 38% in 2014. https://t.co/l4Dlz1vppg
Fast Co. Ideas (@FastCoIdeas) December 26, 2018

The article, titled We studied freelancing for five years: Heres how work is changing , was published in Fast Company in October and tweeted out Wednesday. (Many media companies recirculate older, evergreen stories during the slow traffic week between Christmas and New Years.) Its written by Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork the largest freelancing website, where businesses connect with talented freelancers to get more done.

In the article, Kasriel describes a report commissioned by his organization and the Freelancers Union, titled Freelancing in America: 2018 . The study, which surveyed more than 6,000 U.S. workers, indicates that many millennials are choosing to freelance because of flexibility, quality of life and technology. But there is one important population it avoids discussing: freelancers who dont actually want to be freelancers.

Many writers and reporters are freelancers out of necessity after getting laid off from their jobs. They freelance to stay in their chosen field but often have a hard time cobbling together a living if theyre not well-known in the industry or lack connections.

Heres a bigger picture of how widespread layoffs are in the media industry: Since 2017, about one-third of large U.S. newspapers have suffered layoffs, according to Pew Research . In just the last six months, weve seen layoffs at the New York Daily News , The Outline , Hearst , Refinery29 , Vocativ, CNN Digital, Vice and BuzzFeed , while employees at publications like Mic have been entirely wiped out .

As freelance writer and author Shea Serrano tweeted : People who dont have to freelance love to romanticize freelancing the actual truth is that making a living as a freelancer is harder than hard and sucks a ton of the time.

Understandably, the piece garnered an intense reaction from many working in the media industry, including freelancers themselves:

\"Deciding\" to freelance. Sure buddy. https://t.co/kwM8Can9Wq

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"Deciding" to freelance. Sure buddy. https://t.co/kwM8Can9Wq
Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) December 26, 2018

They are not deciding to freelance. If you're paying a vast majority of them less than 40-50k a year with no health insurance, what else are they supposed to do? The safety net is nowhere to be found and millennials are being exploited on a daily basis. https://t.co/Ff8dG09gIX

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They are not deciding to freelance. If you're paying a vast majority of them less than 40-50k a year with no health insurance, what else are they supposed to do? The safety net is nowhere to be found and millennials are being exploited on a daily basis. https://t.co/Ff8dG09gIX
Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) December 26, 2018

People dying of thirst are now the largest demographic in the desert, and theyre increasingly deciding to drink their own urine. https://t.co/GZRHpWraaB

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People dying of thirst are now the largest demographic in the desert, and theyre increasingly deciding to drink their own urine. https://t.co/GZRHpWraaB
Scott Wampler (@ScottWamplerBMD) December 26, 2018

Ah yes one of the most luxurious and relaxing periods of my life, when I \"decided\" to freelance https://t.co/TOYZUdlkkn

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Ah yes one of the most luxurious and relaxing periods of my life, when I "decided" to freelance https://t.co/TOYZUdlkkn
Vinnie Mancuso (@VinnieMancuso1) December 26, 2018

\"Women are increasingly deciding to be handmaids in Gilead\"

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"Women are increasingly deciding to be handmaids in Gilead"
Lincoln Michel (@TheLincoln) December 26, 2018

Deciding to freelance is a strange was of saying being forced into job insecurity https://t.co/1HYsTbPejP

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Deciding to freelance is a strange was of saying being forced into job insecurity https://t.co/1HYsTbPejP
Jason Linkins (@dceiver) December 26, 2018

This is like saying people who are starving are deciding to go without food to lose weight. https://t.co/2cTxtG4Y60

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This is like saying people who are starving are deciding to go without food to lose weight. https://t.co/2cTxtG4Y60
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this is why I am so against \"personal responsibility\"

it's a narrative that allows these problems that are responsibilities of the system to be offloaded onto us...

no, we don't decide to freelance, we are living in a world that is working overtime to exploit us further https://t.co/AVZgNSKyGJ

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this is why I am so against "personal responsibility"

it's a narrative that allows these problems that are responsibilities of the system to be offloaded onto us...

no, we don't decide to freelance, we are living in a world that is working overtime to exploit us further https://t.co/AVZgNSKyGJ
Poinsettia Coffin (any/all) (@petercoffin) December 26, 2018

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