Young professionals appear to prefer freelance work to experience a new way of boss-free job and control over work and career growth. But older professionals opt for freelancing mainly to strike a perfect work-life balance.
In a 2015 study on Chinese people’s happiness conducted by Tsinghua University, respondents chose freelance work as one that would produce maximum happiness for professionals.
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