Who to choose for my projects, a Team or Freelancers?

When it comes to work, the basic things that everyone wants are a few things like productivity, result, comfort, communication, delivery, multi-skilling, and privacy. Let’s do an analysis check and see for ourselves who is the better one, a team or a freelancer.

Points that are going to be discussed in this post will help identify the needs and what should be the points of concern before beginning with the process of hiring and acquisition of talent. This comparison will be done keeping an end customer in mind so that this helps them take a wise decision in selecting talent according to the need for work that is required to be fulfilled.

Point of view from a freelancer end and a team end will also be kept in the flow of information that is being provided here.

1) Restriction and Comforts
Being a part of a dedicated service-providing team is any day better than freelancing and restraining yourself from the exposure and learning that is available today. Time brings changes that require timely updates of resources and knowledge. It restricts an individual to grow from their bracket of work and does not provide the comfort of communicating with other team members who might be carrying a different approach to work or could be able to educate them on their topic of concern.

On the other hand, it is always comfortable for a freelance that he is directly answerable to the end client and there is no one else who can raise a question on the work that has been done. Direct communication reduces the pilferage of information and facilitates providing exactly what is requested.

2) Innovation
While being a freelancer and providing service to individuals, at the end of the day the work that is produced by them is very identical and repetitive as the introduction of fresh and new ideas are missing. Innovation is something that can be additionally added to the work profile but does not complement to be a promising future.

Members in a team are able to communicate with each other and that interaction helps in building new thoughts that eventually generate new ideas that might lead to an innovative creation. The new ideas that are formed in a team are thoroughly discussed and work on them is done collectively towards its achievement.

3) Uncertainty of Work
Always hunting for work, there is no certainty when the work is going to come and what is going to come. It gives a disappointing feeling when a freelancer comes across something that he is not competent at and that opportunity is missed because of a lack of skills.

4) Client’s Involvement
The absence of no one to check the work, may lead to continuous checking that has to be done by the end client. Creation of havoc during the production period is very much possible as the vision might not be clear and the required result might change depending on the way the production is being done. This might attract a need for an increase in the monetary demands from the service provider as the work is simultaneously being redone.

5) One Point of Contact
Every client is provided with a project manager in a team. He is that team member who is directly in contact with the client. This facilitates the client to reach and communicate with the team as a client does not have to talk to every team member individually and generates coordination amongst them to get the work done. It is always easier to have one point of contact like a project manager rather than investing time in maintaining coordination and coming out with a basic product. A project manager is liable to answer all the queries and bring in the changes that may be a new suggestion or an edit required in the work that has already been done.

6) In House Review of Work
Work that is being done in a team is always given fresh pairs of eyes and a new brain to look at and observe. This helps in proofreading or evaluating the production and getting reviews and immediate suggestions along with the remedies that can be brought into action towards its improvement before the final delivery.

It is always better to have a teamwork solution for the customer as it provides more aid to get to a resolution rather than what an individual can give. A new idea from a group of members can help generate new ideas for the client and bring a better-innovated change in the way of approach that was being followed. These fresh ideas might become a trendsetter and help in generating more business than what was actually targeted.

At APPWRK we are a group of highly skilled individuals. Our skills have been verified to the most optimum level before we could be a part of this team and introduce our work to the APPWRK clientele. We are now sitting together and working to achieve results with the aim to deliver the best result.