When a freelancer makes sense
For time-limited projects, specialist topics or bottlenecks in your own team. Examples are a migration, an audit, introducing a new platform or cover for absence.
Clarify before commissioning
- Goal and result: what should exist at the end and how do you measure it?
- Skill profile: which experience and technologies are really needed?
- Scope and duration: a clearly defined project or ongoing support?
- Access and data: which systems and information does the person need, and how are they protected?
- Confidentiality and data protection: non-disclosure, data processing agreement where applicable.
- Handover: documentation and knowledge transfer at the end.
The issue of false self-employment
What matters is whether an activity is genuinely self-employed or lived like an employment relationship. Typical risk signs are fixed working hours, day-to-day instructions, integration into the team structure and only one client. Clarity comes from a contract for work or services with defined results, own responsibility in execution and, where appropriate, a status determination procedure with the German pension insurance. This article is not legal advice.
Brokering as an alternative
In our Techforce area we place IT specialists and procure projects. This saves you the search. We clarify contract design transparently and you keep an overview of performance and results.