HR,WORKPLACEapersonwhoworksfor several differentcompaniesororganizationsat the sametime:Aportfolioworkermay have avarietyof differentclientsthat theyofferdifferentservicesto, or they mayworkpart-timefor acompanyand havetheirownbusinessas well.
portfolio working
noun[U]We canhelpyou with thetransitionfromemploymentby oneorganizationtoportfolioworking.(Definition ofportfolio workerfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofportfolio worker
portfolio workerHow, then, might an older person fare as aportfolioworker?From theCambridge English CorpusDownsizing and delayering resulted in the shedding of many skilled employees and they had little option but to become portfolio workers.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There has been demandpull as well as supplypush operating in the market for portfolio workers.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A central concern was to examine the extent of autonomy, choice and control in the lives of older portfolio workers.From theCambridge English CorpusAlthough there are sceptics,2 the critical realist's view of the social world helps us comprehend the experiences of older, portfolio workers.From theCambridge English CorpusAmong the ' worker' interviewees, the perspectives on retirement of the self-employed were close to those of the self-employed ' professionals' and ' portfolio workers'.From theCambridge English CorpusInstead, they regarded retirement as a time to engage primarily in the type of work that they found enjoyable, a perspective reflected amongst our own ' portfolio workers'.From theCambridge English CorpusAll the ' portfolio workers ' in the sample lived alone and needed, more than most, to maintain their financial independence - only two had paid off their mortgages.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/portfolio-worker##
