This free online course provides HR professionals with a practical and comprehensive guide to mastering the challenges of the modern gig economy. You’ll explore essential HR compliance principles, worker classification, and ethical freelancer management — learning how to design engagement policies that ensure fairness and legal integrity. Topics include onboarding, performance management, intellectual property, and compensation for non-traditional workers.
The course also shows you how to strategically integrate freelancers, contractors, and agile talent networks into your existing workforce model to boost productivity and maintain compliance with labor laws. You’ll learn data-driven methods to measure workforce performance, improve decision-making, and build true workforce agility that adapts quickly to business demands.
Through real-world insights, you’ll understand the technological and cultural forces reshaping employment and learn to design flexible, future-ready HR strategies. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to enhance organizational efficiency, manage distributed teams confidently, and lead with innovation in an evolving workplace. Position yourself as a forward-thinking HR leader in the gig economy. Enroll today to gain practical, compliant, and future-focused skills for building a resilient, high-performance workforce.
What You Will Learn In This Free Course
View All Learning Outcomes View Less All Alison courses are free to enrol, study, and complete. To successfully complete this Certificate course and become an Alison Graduate, you need to achieve 80% or higher in each course assessment.
Once you have completed this Certificate course, you have the option to acquire an official Certificate, which is a great way to share your achievement with the world.
Your Alison certificate is:
- Ideal for sharing with potential employers.
- Great for your CV, professional social media profiles, and job applications.
- An indication of your commitment to continuously learn, upskill, and achieve high results.
- An incentive for you to continue empowering yourself through lifelong learning.
Alison offers 2 types of Certificate for completed Certificate courses:
- Digital Certificate: a downloadable Certificate in PDF format immediately available to you when you complete your purchase.
- Physical Certificate: a physical version of your officially branded and security-marked Certificate
All Certificate are available to purchase through the Alison Shop. For more information on purchasing Alison Certificate, please visit our FAQs. If you decide not to purchase your Alison Certificate, you can still demonstrate your achievement by sharing your Learner Record or Learner Achievement Verification, both of which are accessible from your Account Settings.