Over 50% of freelancers won't go back to an office job for any amount of money because freelance entails its own set of privileges. As a freelancer, you are your own boss.
I think I agree with that. But perhaps this applies most likely to those freelancers who have long and successfully work in this field. There are many freelancers for whom this is a temporary job for a number of reasons.
This project should help such freelancers in finding a job. There are countries where it is quite difficult to find a permanent job and freelance can be both temporary and permanent work for many people.
Agreed with you. Most unemployed people are looking for freelancer jobs even for temporary and there is a lot of permanent employees looking for freelancer jobs to have extra income, it depends.
But for many professionals it is not an additional income and the main activity and it's cool. since they can live anywhere in the world where there is Internet)
At the end, if someone chooses freelancing as his full-time job, yes it is not any more aditional income or temporary job, it will be the mainstream of his income. and yes, there is 1000s of benefits including becoming his own boss, able to work anywhere in the world, ability to choose which kind of income he needs and ability to having breaks as he needs. It is quite impressive.