Freelance as the main trend in doing business in the food industry

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to formulate the main technological processes of the food business that can be performed by freelancers. The business owner cannot and should not know all the nuances of the main business processes or stages of product production. He must develop a general strategy and monitor its implementation by invited specialists. The main materials used during the research were statistical data of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine; research and statistical data from independent organizations that actively support and analyze the freelance market in Europe and in the world: European Forum of Independent Professionals, Freelancers Union, freelance- platforms Upwork.com and Freelancehunt.com; mass media as Forbes, ain.ua. The main methods used in the study are methods for: analysis, synthesis, comparison and grouping. According to the results of the researches, the freelance market was actively developing and has a stable tendency to increase. From 2011 to 2016, the number of registrations on freelance exchanges in Ukraine reached almost 190 thousand people. Involving a specialist who is a professional in a particular field or business process without including to the stuff, offers additional benefits: cost savings, faster execution of individual business processes and the entire production process, business owner has more opportunities to concentrate on strategic planning. The possibility for food industry enterprises to maintain a decent quality of products, to increase production volumes and to find new markets by attracting freelancers in a fairly severe competition on the market is established. At the same time, internal reserves are aimed at further development of the enterprise. This aspect is rather relevant among enterprises of various industries, which determines the complex economic and political situation in Ukraine.