Freelance Work VS  Working in a Team: pros and cons

Several decades ago it was thought that working solely in a team and collaboration would be lucrative and would guarantee maximum efficiency. However, leading practitioners and theorists in the sphere of marketing recently reconsider this issue and provide the new insight into the benefits of freelance work as well. So, let’s take a closer look at that.

Working in a team: 
Pros:

By setting individual goals to go along with common goals, the employees within work teams can create some friendly competition and use the peer-pressure influence to keep each other motivated to reach quotas or objectives. In other words, it boosts morale.  By the way, it may foster team spirit.

Moreover, team members can collaborate to enhance the benefits of the best solution by continuing to work together to enact it. In other words, pooling skills work wonders! Working as part of a team promotes mutual understanding and trust, is fulfilling and gives a feeling that you’re valued, needed.

Cons:

Not all teams work in an ideal manner all the time. Having different ideas individuals how tasks should be accomplished  may be disruptive and there is always the possibility of interpersonal conflict arising when working in a team.What is more, not being able to  fit in may result for a member not only in undermining  his confidence, but also the whole team work.

The other thing is that there is not so much room in a team for self-expression and this definitely brings about stifling individual enterprise and initiative.

Being a freelancer:
Pros:

The first and foremost, you're your own boss, not accountable to and not dependable on anyone else: you can choose when and where to work.  Also, it’s not a secret to anybody that working alone doesn’t influence your salary, even more, you can work less hours and make more money! By the way, this kind of work doesn’t interfere with other activities – you can juggle work and family responsibilities.

                                                              

Cons:

Despite the advantages, working as a freelancer isn’t all roses. With not having consistent monthly income, you won’t also have additional benefits and perks. That’s to say, you would have a lack of job and income security. Apart from that, freelancers usually encounter loneliness and in most cases they are forced to fend for themselves.

So, having mentioned some pros and cons of both ways of working, it’s important to bear in mind that there’s no perfect variant and it’s up to you to choose one. While some people wouldn’t exchange the security working in a team gives for anything else, other’s wouldn’t put up with punishing deadlines and office politics.