this post by the daily beast presents a somewhat more critical view of todays flexible working environment:

welcome to the age of gigocracy

“no one i know has a job anymore. they’ve got gigs. gigs: a bunch of free-floating projects, consultancies, and part-time bits and pieces they try and stitch together to make what they refer to wryly as “the nut”—the sum that allows them to hang on to the apartment, the health-care policy, the baby sitter, and the school fees…”