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The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has ramped up plans for next month's National Freelancers Day with a new website and speaker line-up for its online event.

Futurologist Dr James Bellini, Michael van Swaaij, former managing director of eBay Europe, and Jon Andrews, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will lead a webcast entitled 'Freelancing: The Future of Work'.

The webcast will be available on www.nationalfreelancersday.org.uk on November 23 and will focus on how freelancers fit into changing work patterns by looking ahead to 2020.

The day's events will look at what benefits a growing freelance workforce could bring to employers and businesses and how freelancers' own working habits may change.

"Trend analysts at PwC envisage a possible scenario where companies are able to cherry-pick freelancers from a global talent pool, often in a matter of hours, gaining significant advantage over competitors still struggling with hiring talent for permanent positions. This flexibility allows companies to steal market share from more traditional players," the PCG added in a release .

The webcast will be free and is part of a series of regional and online events to be held on the day.

"Clearly the world of work is changing and those companies with foresight will undoubtedly benefit from tapping into an agile, motivated, flexible and professional business community that is made up of freelancers," said John Brazier, managing director of the PCG, in the release.

The PCG is also asking for recommendations from freelancers for the event, which can be emailed to

[info [at] nationalfreelancersday.org.uk](mailto:info@nationalfreelancersday.org.uk)

. The PCG spoke out last month following the National Union of Journalists' (NUJ) campaign for redundancy rights for freelancers.

Accepting redundancy pay would be taking on a hallmark 'associated with being an employee' for a freelancer, said the organisation, which campaigns for clearer legislation for freelancers and lobbies government on their behalf.

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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