What is flexible employment?

Flexible employment is a form of employment relative to formal employment. It includes various forms, such as part-time employment, hourly work, flexible working hours, temporary employment, seasonal work, informal employment, staged employment and so on. Compared with formal employment, flexible employment has different characteristics and requirements in labor relations, wage payment, social insurance and employment services. Diversification of employment forms is an inevitable trend of social and economic development. Flexible employment is also employment. Under the condition of market economy, no matter how long the working hours are and how much the remuneration is, as long as the workers get legal income or remuneration by participating in social labor, it is employment.