Below is a comparison table between working conditions of a regular office employee and an online freelancer. I have included the pros and cons for each. Some of these ideas are based on personal experience and some are from others who work in similar nature. I asked other freelancers for their opinion for each category and mostly, here are their answers.
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Other freelancers can easily get visa because they do have their own business to declare. For others who have just decided to be a full time freelancer, they have the necessary documents needed because of their prior regular office work.
Another con for being a freelancer, since you do not have the necessary documents needed, you cannot apply for loans. This is a major setback because there are a lot of benefits in having credit cards such as zero (0%) installments and buy now, pay later promos.
But if you think about it positively, there are still good things about it. You will not desire for things which are beyond your limits. You will always take into consideration your money on hand.
An employee has a lot of advantage in terms of working benefits. Aside from the fact that they are protected by our labor laws, they also enjoy the benefits provided by the latter. A freelancer who gets sick does not enjoy sick leave, or one who just gave birth does not enjoy maternity leave. A freelancer gets nothing if he or she did not work for the day, unless he or she got a nice client who cares and understands the situation.
Lastly, in terms of salary increase, a freelancer will most likely have more room for rate increase than a regular employee. From an interview with a friend employee from a big softdrink company, she said she only got Php800 increase on her salary after two years of working. Worst is that their ovetime work goes up to 16hrs per day plus saturday and sunday. Compared to a freelancer who owns his or her time and can explore other fields beyond his/hers as long as he or she can do the work efficiently and with high quality.
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