{"id":194694,"date":"2026-07-07T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factorialhr.com\/blog\/factorial-play\/videos\/ai-freelancers-vs-employees-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:08:20","slug":"ai-freelancers-vs-employees-2","status":"publish","type":"factorial_video","link":"https:\/\/factorialhr.co.uk\/blog\/factorial-play\/videos\/ai-freelancers-vs-employees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Freelancers vs Employees"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_video_type":"highlight","_related_series":192403,"_related_episode":194672,"_related_season":0,"_video_source":"vimeo","_youtube_video_id":"","_vimeo_video_id":"1203874295","_speaker_id":194671,"_video_description":"In a compelling discussion, Vincent Huguet and Martin Bonnefond explore the dynamic role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, emphasizing that freelancers adapt to AI technologies more rapidly than traditional employees due to their entrepreneurial nature and necessity for continuous learning. They argue that this trend reflects broader company culture issues, where leadership and team management play crucial roles in fostering an environment conducive to innovation. By promoting values of adaptability and open communication, organizations can enhance career development plans and leverage freelancers' unique insights to accelerate their own AI integration. According to Huguet and Bonnefond, fostering a culture of curiosity is vital for companies to thrive in this evolving landscape. Don\u2019t miss more tips and insights on AI's impact on work in the full episode.","_video_transcription":"00:07 - Hello, I'm Vincent Huguet, CEO and co-founder of Malt,and I'm delighted to speak with you today about the impact of artificial intelligence on the world of work.intelligence on the world of work.\n00:15 - Hello, my name is Martin Bonnefond, I'm a finance consultant at Factorial and I'm thrilled to be here with you today to talk about artificial intelligence.\n00:33 - Hello Vincent and Martin.On The Deck works as follows: you will first answer a question without knowing what the other person has answered.\n00:40 - Then, you'll have the opportunity to share your impressions and dive deeper into your answers. Let's go.\n00:45 - Third and final question.Freelancers are adopting AI much faster than employees.\n00:49 - Is that a talent problem or a company problem?A: an HR inertia problem.\n00:53 - B: a culture problem.C: a freelancer advantage. D: the Joker.\n00:57 - It's a freelancer advantage.Freelancers adapt faster than everyone else \u2014 that's just natural.\n01:02 - And for this one, I would go with a rather straightforward and central answer: a culture problem.\n01:09 - And I'll say that I went with the culture problem.\n01:11 - Why?Because today, I have the chance to work with Factorial, which is a company that decided that internally and externally,it was something very important to start using, with or without a framework, with or without a safety net.\n01:22 - You had to test tools first.I remember that at the beginning, we all used Granola even though we didn't really know what it was going to be used for.\n01:28 - Then all of a sudden, we saw we could connect it with Claude, and then we could connect it with Slack.\n01:32 - There's a real buzz in terms of tools being used.I think it's because certain people,and especially our leaders, said: Go ahead, we'll check the results after the fact, and it's worth testing.\n01:45 - And it's true that today, I have friends who work at companies that are a bit more, let's say, traditional, whether in industry or even Salesforce providers, etc.\n01:56 - I sense they're not internally driven to do more, or at least to try it out, even on free versions, or even go further with paid versions.\n02:05 - I really feel today that yes, it's a company culture issue that can either come from the bottom, through a developer who suddenly thinks that, or we saw someone at our company in the recruiting department who suddenly got fed up with tracking things herself, so she built her own agent with Gemini.\n02:22 - Nobody asked her to do that.Yet she's the one who said: No, I just don't want to waste time on this anymore, so I'm doing it.\n02:28 - And of course, our leaders said: This is super important.\n02:31 - That's the culture problem side of it.I have the sense today that employees, broadly speaking, are held back,are constrained, but maybe it's unconscious.\n02:40 - On our end, internally, for instance, in a company like ours,I think like yours \u2014 first, my CTO, their team,we set everything up so that people can, in a very autonomous way,test things with different tools.\n02:52 - Then, it becomes a culture and HR topic, indeed, to deploy that,so that people have time to train, to test, to have the right to make mistakes, etc.\n03:01 - Now, why did I choose both C and a freelancer advantage?\n03:04 - Because in this case, indeed, aside from organizations that move faster than others, I think that most of the time,a freelancer moves even faster.\n03:14 - And we've seen them adopt AI for two, three years now. Why?\n03:20 - Because a freelancer, first of all, is an entrepreneur who works alone.\n03:23 - So if they want to scale, they have to use tools because they're not going to build a team.\n03:28 - If they build a company, it becomes an agency, it becomes a consulting firm.\n03:31 - They often want to stay as experts, they want to stay in their field on their own.\n03:34 - So if they want to scale, it's an extraordinary opportunity to be able to do so.\n03:38 - And secondly, a freelancer is \u2014 maybe it's a slightly pejorative way to put it, but they're a product on a market.\n03:44 - Meaning they know they have to position themselves and adapt constantly.\n03:48 - Freelancers \u2014 actually, we run a study every two years,across all of Europe \u2014 they train on average 4 to 5 hours per week, which is much more than an employee.\n03:58 - But they're compelled to do it, and it's also one of the reasons they become freelancers \u2014 because they love the idea of having the flexibility to learn whenever they want.\n04:06 - So if they were developers working on user-generated systems, today,they're going to access and work differently with code, etc.\n04:15 - They'll rethink their way of working more easily.So they're perhaps a bit more curious out of necessity, by choice.\n04:24 - And then, they're the ones who bring this, once again,into companies \u2014 they bring this culture of curiosity.\n04:30 - And we, by the way, always have freelancers with us,but we have even more since the rise of AI, because we know they're going to bring us something.\n04:38 - With freelancers, we'll go looking...Our clients often seek them for hard skills.\n04:42 - I need a developer, a photographer, a product manager, etc.\n04:45 - But what they appreciate afterward is more the soft skills.\n04:48 - They say: These are people who challenge us, people who speak their mind,people who bring tools they've seen elsewhere,working methods they've seen elsewhere.\n04:54 - So that's why, obviously, in the companies where it works well, it's more an HR culture issue.\n05:00 - But it's also an opportunity for companies to work with freelancers to accelerate their AI culture, in my opinion.\n05:06 - The debate is now over.Thank you very much for your answers and your explanations.\n05:10 - It was a pleasure. Yeah, very good.Thank you, Martin.\n05:13 - And I also see that we didn't use any Joker questions,so we really put ourselves out there. We were good, yes.\n05:17 - In any case, it was a pleasure. Thank you very much. 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