With no source of income, "self-employed" people want to return to work but... traffic jams

Since 2020, the trend of freelancing has become an ideal form for young people who want a job that is comfortable in terms of time, environment, and location while still bringing in high income. Because of that, many office workers have chosen to leave the company, abandon the administrative time frame to become freelancers.

However, at the present time, this group is "craving" to return to the office.

No longer have enough money to maintain personal living

Ms. Hien Trang (28 years old, living in Ho Chi Minh City) shared that since the Covid-19 pandemic until now, she has lived entirely on freelance content writing.

She accepts to write scripts for reality shows, edit livestreams, write advertising publications, participate in TVC production projects or media campaigns... All of the above jobs give Ms. Trang a monthly income of no less than 20 million VND.

However, in the past 4 months, her income has only reached half, sometimes 1/4 compared to before.

Sharing the same situation, Ms. Chau Nguyen (26 years old, living in Ho Chi Minh City) said that when she quit her job during the Covid-19 pandemic, she was lucky to be introduced by her former boss to work at a startup company as a content producer and many other media companies.

Gradually, thanks to her relationships, Ms. Chau became a freelancer in many positions such as building communication channels, organizing events... with a fairly high income.

"However, since the beginning of the year, there are months when my income is only enough to pay for rent and food, so I have to rely on my parents," said Ms. Chau.

Mr. Hien Ngo (25 years old, a designer in Ho Chi Minh City) also confided that from his freelance job that used to bring him a stable income, he is now no longer able to cover basic living expenses.

The market is "dry" for freelancers

Mr. Hien Ngo shared that if last year, every month customers came to him to help him with 3-4 projects regularly, now he has to actively "sweep" work everywhere but still can't find it.

"Personally, I think that in the face of the economic recession, freelancers are the group of workers most at risk. Companies are trying to make the most of their human resources and are not foolish enough to spend more budget to hire more outside staff, so everything is extremely difficult," said Mr. Hien Ngo.

Soon after, the young man planned to look for a formal job. However, there was still no hope because the recruitment market was gloomy.

Realizing that she could not maintain her standard of living, Ms. Hien Trang wanted to return to the office. However, because of her experience working in many fields and not specializing in one position, it was difficult for her to convince employers.

To earn income, Ms. Hien Trang accepts small jobs from startups. According to her, the company has cut some non-essential positions, so when there is work, they will outsource and pay by project. However, most of the work is always priced low because the budget is not much, and freelancers themselves are sluggish, so they have to accept it.

"My income a few years ago was 4 or 5 times higher than it is now because large corporations often pay well if the quality of work is high. However, now I don't see any company with a complete human resources system hiring freelancers to speed up progress anymore," said Ms. Hien Trang.

Recently, the Ho Chi Minh City Statistics Office reported that in the first 5 months of the year, it received 47,400 applications for unemployment benefits, and issued decisions to grant unemployment benefits to 43,409 eligible workers.

Deducting unemployment insurance settlement data in the first 4 months of the year, in May alone, the city had more than 15,000 cases applying for unemployment benefits.

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