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It is therefore becoming ever more critical that a freelance commissioner look at income and wages, as well as the bane of late payment. It would be fair, and certainly more efficient, if the freelance commissioner were to consider the whole landscape of freelance and self-employed work, although the creative industries are a significant part of that. In that respect, one could look at this landscape through two ends of the telescope. At one end are the bogus self-employed, and indeed those who have been pushed into being self-employed against their will, and that, admittedly, includes some working in the creative industries who were previously in salaried positions, particularly in large institutions and organisations. Seen through the other end of the telescope, however, there are many for whom being self-employed, with that inbuilt flexibility, is the right fit. That includes many artists and creatives.