A Technology Freelancers’ Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative

Summary

At first glance, forming a co-op of freelancers might seem like a contradiction in terms. After all, isn’t the whole idea of being a freelancer to be independent, your own boss, a lone wolf wandering the range? Many of us who have been employees, then freelancers, then worker-owners of a co-op have found the worker co-op model to offer the best of both worlds. You still get much of the self-determination of being your own boss—but you don’t have to do it all alone.