5 Reasons you should never hire a Freelancer

Nowadays it`s becoming common practice to work with a freelance specialist, instead of hiring a full-time employee. It seems practical and more realistic choice as you may only have to pay for getting the job done without paying wages and supporting administrative needs of the employees. But is it really that simple to just hire an outsider or a remote worker? Obviously not, there are many cons associated with hiring a freelancer that may create a lot of trouble for you. For example, if you are looking for a freelancer in Dubai, UAE, there are certain legal restrictions apply. You can only hire a freelance worker who has a permit to offer his service for the approved category. In addition to that, there are many other issues that you might have to face due to hiring an independent contractor.

Let`s have a look at why you should be extra careful while hiring freelance workers?

Lack of Commitment.

Despite of all the trust you put in a freelancer, and how much you urge them about the importance of deadlines, they can still skip it at their very ease and give you any lame excuse like ‘I got sick, can’t work anymore’ at the very final moment! And about the payment, you made in advance? Well, forget about that.

Quality is not always ensured.

Ratings on freelance websites like Upwork and freelancer.com are supposed to give an impression of the freelancer’s work quality but do not get fooled by these ratings.  These freelancers considering themselves as some superstars do not even do a simple task for you, and in fact are more or less offended by it. Some freelancers even sell good ratings on profiles, which makes the entire concept of it fail! So you should not fall for 5-star ratings on a fancy freelancer profile! In another case, if you hire an independent contractor, you never know the quality of their work. Therefore, most of the times what you get is poor quality work.

No Interpersonal Interactions.

Have you ever tried calculating the amount of time you and the freelancer you hired for some work spend in chatting sending some screenshots to each other? You will realize the time spent on chat was more than your work. On the other hand, working under a single roof makes the process faster as communication is quick and easy so you do not have to hang on your phones to convey the guidelines or show the sample work.

Lack of Trust.

So your freelancer shared with you sample work which he claims to have done for some other clients. What is the guarantee that he’s speaking the truth and it is really him who did that work? Freelancers very easily fake all their information to increase the chances of getting hired. Some of them you can easily identify, while there are many surfacing around who are actually professional scammers and have the art of faking, and even fake their personal documents! How will you identify such people? And will you ever hand your business to such people?

No Control and No Reliability.

One of the biggest disadvantages of hiring freelancer is that you will never have an idea about the working style of that freelancer. Perhaps you will never know the work you have handed to them will be completed within agreed time, or ever be delivered. Many of them don’t even care about the requirements of the projects that you have mentioned. This unreliability is real and can even cost a lot of money as well. Freelancers do not have any connection or concern with you or your project and would love to ditch you at any point while completing the project. The only motivation driving them to work is some extra bucks, nothing else!

So the next time you consider going up to freelancing websites looking for people to work for you, think twice about all the points we mentioned here for you. Better stay safe than be sorry!

Whitehats is a leading Managed IT service provider in the GCC. The Company offers an extensive range of IT networking, IT support, cloud solutions and software development services to Startups, SMBs, Blue Chip enterprises, entrepreneurs and home users.  Founded in 2007, the company has severed 100s of businesses over the years and is recognized as a top class IT Company in the region.