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As others have pointed out, full-time freelancing is not a thing. Freelance is piecework. If I assign a movie review, it's none of my business how long it takes or whether the person works "full-time."
Furthermore, when you have a job with disparate parts -- 15 percent this, 25 percent that -- it looks even more like a job, not a gig. If it works exactly like the other jobs in your office except you call it freelance, it's not freelance.
Moreover, stop putting demands on writers that are so freaking unreasonable that the only way to comply is to write garbage or start lifting from other places. I write one newsletter a week, I've been a professional writer for almost 20 years, and it takes me probably half a day.
That means if it were daily, it would be half of my full-time job. But let's say it's a third. They're calling this 20 percent for daily *plus other "sends"*, for a writer at the beginning of their career. This is just all very bad, as is calling it a great opportunity.
Job. Position. These are not freelance words. Start people off in your organization with some respect. If you need an editorial assistant, that's great! Hire one! But don't expect people to turn themselves inside out for you and then treat them like they're self- employed.
You know this. You're Conde Nast. You *know* this. Don't act like you don't. /fin
Oh, P.S. If the thought on your mind right now is "But weren't you classified for entirely too long as freelance in the job you currently have and love very much, at a place that also should not have made this error"? Why yes. Yes, I sure was.
