hugorodgerbrown

Would be really interesting if people could add their location. Seems like those in US have really long journeys to work?

Thanks - that's an interesting article, although the key quote from the original paper doesn't really help make the case:

> The only thing that can be said with any certainty, is that not doing any technical debt maintenance does impact them negatively. But there isn’t a lot of difference from that point on. This is slightly controversial, and could be unrelated altogether.

Judging by the lack of activity on this thread, and the above article, I think I could effectively argue that technical debt either doesn't exist (outside the minds of developers), or that it's 'a thing', but just not that important.

This isn't what I was hoping to see...

Thanks for the analogy, but this is missing the point - this thread is about the opposite - real, verifiable, experience.

Co-founder of YunoJuno here. I thought I'd chip in on a general point (I won't attempt to answer specifics here as I think that's probably inviting trouble for someone like me, with skin in the game.)

What I would say is that we at YJ feel very strongly that the future of work is freelance. We've (literally) put our money where our mouth is on this belief (not to mention our careers), and so we, and I'm guessing the others in this space, really want to work with the freelancer community to make this happen.

I've been a freelancer (developer), and a hirer (as CTO at various companies), so feel reasonably in touch with both sides of the market, and frankly, neither side functions properly. You (as freelancers) shouldn't be paying 20%, and employers shouldn't be wading through the cr^p that traditional freelancer recruiters put them through[1]. We're all working on making this better.

Whilst we're doing our thing, there are some great competitors in this market, and hopefully they would agree with me when I say please don't give up on us - the world of work is changing, and we're all trying to push it along in the right direction.

Oh, and one minor rebuff - the very best employers in London, certainly, are using online services, whether that be YunoJuno or any of the other sites listed - and whilst the names on the list may change, the migration to online services is inevitable. This is your future, get involved.

[1]There are exceptions to this - some recruiters are good guys - but they take a lot of finding.