Bekerja freelance/B2B vs kerja kantoran tradisional
Jika Anda bertindak
Menjadi pekerja lepas/kontrak B2B
37%
Jika Anda tidak bertindak
Bekerja sebagai karyawan tetap
28%
Persentase orang yang kemudian menyesali setiap pilihan. Diagram batang dan catatan lengkap ditampilkan di bawah.
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Terakhir ditinjau 2026-04-26
Kualitas bukti 4.13/5
Skor tinjauan delapan dimensi terhadap
rubrik kualitas
. Setiap dimensi dinilai 1–5.
D1 Verifikasi sumber
5/5
D2 Otoritas & independensi sumber
4/5
D3 Akurasi tingkat penyesalan
2/5
D4 Keterbandingan sumber
3/5
D5 Pola Gilovich
5/5
D6 Kualitas prosa
5/5
D7 Kelengkapan peringatan
5/5
D8 Kualitas sampel
4/5
Rata-rata4.13/5
Data proksi — tidak ada survei penyesalan langsung untuk keputusan ini. Tingkat diturunkan dari skor kepuasan dan data hambatan akses daripada pertanyaan yang langsung menanyakan tentang penyesalan. Lihat peringatan di bawah.
Penyesalan atas tindakan
Menjadi pekerja lepas/kontrak B2B
37%
Proxy (bukan penyesalan terukur): 37% freelancer tidak menyatakan freelancing lebih memuaskan daripada pekerjaan tetap — komplemen dari 63% yang menyatakannya, sebuah penilaian imbalan-relatif alih-alih penyesalan telah memilih menjadi freelancer
Pekerja lepas AS dan Inggris, panel online
retrospektif, tidak ada kerangka waktu tetap
Penyesalan atas kelambanan
Bekerja sebagai karyawan tetap
28%
Proxy (bukan penyesalan terukur): 28% karyawan saat ini di AS dan Inggris berencana melakukan pekerjaan freelance dalam lima tahun ke depan — ukuran niat-untuk-beralih-keluar (proxy yang lebih dekat untuk menyesali pekerjaan tetap daripada kepuasan), bukan tingkat penyesalan langsung
Orang dewasa AS yang bekerja (bukan pekerja lepas), panel online
pelacakan tahunan, 2023
% menyesal dengan pilihan ini
Menjadi pekerja lepas/kontrak B2BBekerja sebagai karyawan tetap
37%28%
action dominates — Bertindak mendominasi — sebagian besar menyesali karena bertindak.
Keputusan terkait
Keputusan yang serupa secara semantik — area yang sama, kompromi yang berbeda.
Neither side of this entry carries a direct regret measure, so both rates are
proxies. On the freelancer (action) side, Remote.com’s global survey finds that
37% of freelancers do not consider independent work more rewarding than
traditional employment — the complement of the 63% who do. McKinsey’s 2022
American Opportunity Survey sets a floor under that figure: 26% freelance
out of necessity rather than choice, so the true action-side proxy plausibly
sits in the 26-37% band. On the employment (inaction) side, the cleanest proxy
the same Remote.com survey offers is intent to switch away: 28% of current
US-and-UK employees actively plan to start freelancing within five years. Wanting
to leave employment for freelancing is a closer stand-in for regretting the
employment choice than a general job-dissatisfaction figure, which conflates
everyday grievances with career-structure regret. Drawing both headline proxies
from one consistent survey also removes the earlier apples-to-oranges pairing of
two different vendors’ panels.
Read as proxies, the figures lean slightly toward higher action-side regret
(37%) than inaction-side intent-to-leave (28%), but the gap is small and the two
constructs are not identical, so the direction is weakly held rather than a clean
asymmetry. MBO Partners’ 2024 State of Independence report confirms that
full-time independents report higher satisfaction than employees on 12 of 14
dimensions measured (65% of full-time independents say they feel more secure
working independently), a real but incremental edge, not the 2:1 ratio
previously suggested by misusing Gallup’s engagement metric. The earlier
version of this entry used Gallup’s 69% employee
disengagement figure as an inaction-regret proxy, which was invalid: not being
“engaged” at work (a measure of daily effort and emotional connection to one’s
employer) is categorically different from regretting one’s career structure.
The main interpretive hazard is construct mismatch — the revised figures still
compare “finding freelancing less rewarding than employment” (action side) with
“planning to switch to freelancing” (inaction side), which are related but
non-identical sentiments, neither of them a verbatim regret item. Survivor bias
flatters the action side: freelancers who failed and re-entered employment
vanish from freelancer satisfaction panels. The most honest summary the data
supports is that both arrangements leave a sizeable minority looking toward the
other, with a slight tilt toward proxy regret on the freelancing side. Neither
path is a clearly regret-free choice; the decision depends on individual risk
tolerance, income needs, and preference for autonomy versus stability.
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[1]Remote.com — Remote's Global Freelancer Report
Studi primer
63% of freelancers find freelancing more rewarding than being a regular employee; 37% do not
Kutipan
“"Over two thirds (68%) of freelancers we surveyed said they have had a positive experience overall as a freelancer, and another 63% said they find it more rewarding than being a regular employee."
”
Data sumber dari
2023-06-15
Diakses
2026-04-26
Perhitungan
Remote.com surveyed 3,000 business owners, freelancers, and employees in the US and UK. The 37% action-regret proxy is the complement of the 63% who prefer freelancing. This overstates true regret — some of the 37% are indifferent rather than regretful — but it is the closest published figure to a direct preference measure.
[2]McKinsey Global Institute — Freelance, side hustles, and gigs: Many more Americans have become independent workers
Sumber referensi
26% of independent workers do it out of necessity rather than choice, up from 14% in 2016
Kutipan
“"Just over a quarter of respondents say they do independent work because it's what they have to do to support themselves, which is a large increase over the 14 percent of respondents in 2016 research who said they did independent work out of necessity and as a primary source of income."
”
Data sumber dari
2022-08-18
Diakses
2026-04-26
Perhitungan
McKinsey 2022 American Opportunity Survey. The 26% necessity-driven figure is a lower bound on action regret: these workers would prefer traditional employment but lack the option. Corroborates the Remote.com 37% as an upper bound. The true action-regret rate likely falls in the 26-37% range.
Sumber: tidak bertindak
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[1]Remote.com — Remote's Global Freelancer Report
Studi primer
Almost three in ten (28%) current employees in the US and UK plan to do freelance work in the next five years
Kutipan
“"Almost three in ten (28%) current employees in the US and UK plan to do freelance work in the next five years."
”
Data sumber dari
2023-06-15
Diakses
2026-04-26
Perhitungan
Remote.com surveyed 3,000 employers, employees, and freelancers in the US and UK during December 2022. The inaction-side proxy uses the directly-reported 28% intent-to-freelance figure: employees who plan to switch away from employment toward freelancing is a closer proxy for regretting the employment choice than general job dissatisfaction, which conflates day-to-day grievances with career-structure regret. This replaces the previous Gallup engagement figure (69%), which measured engagement with one's current employer — not career-structure regret — and produced an artificially large gap. The same Remote.com report supplies the action-side 63%/37% preference split, so both headline proxies come from one consistent US-and-UK survey.
[2]MBO Partners — 2024 State of Independence in America Report
Terverifikasi
Studi primer
65% of full-time independents feel more secure working independently; independent workers report higher satisfaction on 12 of 14 dimensions
Kutipan
“"65% of full-time independents say they feel more secure working independently. Independent workers report higher satisfaction than traditional employees on work-life balance, purpose, autonomy, and overall career satisfaction."
”
Data sumber dari
2024-10-01
Diakses
2026-04-26
Verifikasi
Kutipan diambil ulang secara independen dan dikonfirmasi kata demi kata terhadap sumber terkutip selama audit pendasaran kami.
Perhitungan
MBO Partners 15th annual State of Independence study. The higher satisfaction among independents vs employees supports the direction of inaction-side dissatisfaction among traditional workers. Does not provide a direct inaction-regret rate but confirms the satisfaction gap from an independent, longitudinal source.
Catatan
Tidak ada tingkat yang merupakan ukuran penyesalan langsung. Angka 37% di sisi tindakan adalah komplemen dari freelancer yang "menemukan freelancing lebih memuaskan daripada pekerjaan tetap" (Remote.com) — preferensi pada satu pengaturan tidak sama dengan menyesali yang lain; angka 26% terdorong-kebutuhan dari McKinsey adalah lantai empirisnya, sehingga penyesalan-tindakan sebenarnya kemungkinan berada dalam pita 26-37%. Tingkat sisi ketidaktindakan menggunakan angka 28% niat-menjadi-freelance yang dilaporkan langsung oleh Upwork (karyawan yang berencana beralih ke pekerjaan freelance dalam lima tahun) sebagai proxy: ingin meninggalkan pekerjaan tetap demi freelancing lebih dekat dengan menyesali pilihan pekerjaan tetap daripada komplemen-kepuasan sebelumnya (39% = 1 − 61% puas dengan kondisi kerja), yang mencampuradukkan ketidakpuasan kerja sehari-hari dengan penyesalan struktur-karier. Kesenjangan kepuasan 39% dipertahankan sebagai konteks saja. Keduanya menggantikan tingkat disengagement 69% Gallup dari entri sebelumnya, yang mengukur keterikatan dengan pemberi kerja saat ini — konstruk yang sama sekali berbeda — dan menghasilkan kesenjangan yang artifisial besar. Dibaca sebagai proxy, angka-angka tersebut condong ke penyesalan-proxy sisi-tindakan yang lebih tinggi (37%) daripada niat-untuk-pergi sisi-ketidaktindakan (28%), tetapi selisihnya kecil dan konstruknya berbeda, sehingga arahnya dipegang lemah. Bias penyintas tetap menjadi masalah: freelancer yang gagal dan kembali bekerja tetap absen dari survei kepuasan freelancer, yang menyanjung sisi tindakan.
