Self-employed in Russia most often become men under 34 years

Youdo and Yandex. The portrait of the average self-employed – they became a man aged 25-34 years. In addition, in 2021, the number of self-employed on specialized platforms has doubled in Russia. This is the results of the research of self-employment, which companies held together among self-employed, collaborating with Youdo and Yandex.

companies also decided to figure out why people choose this particular type of employment. The key factors were the ability to independently form their work schedule (it was called 57.5 percent of respondents), low tax rate (42.5 percent), work without direct guidance or control (41 percent), lack of workflow (36.5 percent) and the possibility Combining self-employment with the main work (30 percent).

There is reason to assume that soon one of the factors will be the average monthly level of income – it, according to the results of the study, has grown in a third of self-employed. More than 40 percent of self-employed now receive more than 60,000 rubles per month on an ongoing basis.

What services most often do all-handed? As the company found out, among them the services of a virtual assistant (SMM manager, copywriter, specialist in online advertising), courier services, construction and repair, taxi transportation, design, organization of events and promotions, assistance in the field of IT.

When choosing a platform for cooperation, self-employed (49 percent) pay attention to the number of orders on the platform, to quickly get the funds earned on the platform (43 percent), on the convenience of a mobile application (37 percent). Other arguments, such as commission, bonuses, preferential lending, legal advice and educational programs are influenced by the choice.

At the same time, there are questions causing, according to self-employed, anxiety. This is a small number of social guarantees, insufficient infrastructure for this category of persons, as well as low support at the legislative level. At the same time, those introduced since last year additional measures of support for self-employed, which were developed both at the state level and at the business level, are used only by 17 percent of respondents.

/Media reports.