Talent Monitor Zzp'ers: protect or set free?

HeadFirst Group believes that exploitation in the labor market should be countered with appropriate measures, while at the same time not ignoring the large group of self-employed who consciously choose to do business in complete freedom and have control over their own work. With the insights in the Talent Monitor “Zzp'ers: protect or set free?” we hope to make a new contribution to this.

We zoom in mainly on the group of self-employed workers with an hourly rate of €35 or lower. Which occupational groups are under- or over-represented in this? Is there the prospect of a higher rate because there is a high demand for this type of labor? And how do they characterize themselves in terms of labor market activity? But also the self-employed between €36 and €70 and €70 or higher are covered in this report, so that the differences with the group of self-employed people with the lowest rates become very clear.

Main observations

• Self-employed people with an hourly rate of €35 or lower work mainly as domestic help and cleaners, waiters and bar staff or childcare workers and teaching assistants.
• Especially the occupational groups childcare workers and teaching assistants and domestic helpers and cleaners seem to be the needy target groups based on the hourly rate and the prospect of rate increases.
• Specialists in sports and fitness and authors, journalists and linguists can largely be found in the €36 to €70 rate group.
• Zzp'ers with an hourly rate of €70 or higher are overrepresented in professional groups such as lawyers, software and application developers and analysts and doctors.
• At 28%, self-employed persons with an hourly rate of €35 or lower are slightly more actively looking for a (new) assignment than self-employed persons from the other two rate groups.
• The part that is not actively looking, but does keep an eye on the market, at 49%, is actually smaller than the other two rate groups.
• Self-employed people with a lower hourly rate are more likely to be (re)employed (18%). For self-employed persons with an hourly rate of €70 or higher, this percentage is slightly lower, at 16%. For self-employed people with an hourly rate between €36 and €70, it stalls at 11%.
• Independent contractors with an hourly rate of €70 or higher are approached most often by clients and agencies. The sourcing pressure, the percentage that is approached at least once per quarter, is 67% for them. For self-employed persons with an hourly rate of €35 or lower, it is 63% and for self-employed persons with an intermediate hourly rate 61%.
• Zzpp'ers with an hourly rate of €35 or lower are less willing to travel far for an assignment. Half of the self-employed with an hourly rate of €70 or higher are willing to travel longer than an hour, while for self-employed with an hourly rate of €35 or lower, this is 37%.

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Every quarter Intelligence Group and HeadFirst Group provide unique insights on labor market related themes based on Intelligence Group's recruitment and labor market data, combined with HeadFirst Group's hiring data. Both data sources are stored in a structured way, in accordance with the ISCO standard.