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Look at it from the other perspective. The point of hiring freelancers is usually either,

1. Not going through the full hiring process, especially culturally.

2. Hiring someone who wouldn't want to stay at the company.

Point 2 is where your typical definition of freelancing fits in - you're a superstar who can't fit on their payroll.

For point 1, most companies just rather pay a company to do the vetting, onboarding, offboarding, managing, HR. It's often just throwing money for manpower.

The more well-placed a company is, the less likely point 2 will happen. These companies can afford whatever prices and benefits the superstar wants. Hey, I gave up freelancing to settle at a company.

So you end up freelancing for small and mid-tier companies, or something like Fortune 500 corporates who have good money but end up dead end jobs.




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