CIOs already struggling to keep Boomers, GenXers and millennials happily productive in their organizations could soon have a new challenge on their hands: Managing a tech workforce in the age of the "gig economy."

Increasingly, workers 35 and under are indicating that they prefer to work as independents on a project-by-project basis. "Millennials are adopting [freelancing] at a faster rate than what we've seen from previous generations," says John Reed, senior executive director at Robert Half Technology. And that's a deliberate choice rather than a consequence of a layoff or other negative event. "Millennials are actually saying, 'I'm going to make this transition. I want that lifestyle,'" Reed says.

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Call it what you will -- the "open talent economy," "freelancing," the "gig economy," "contracting" -- working for yourself is having a moment, particularly in high tech.

Once upon a time, IT pros went freelance only when driven there by circumstances like a bad economy, a layoff or an overabundance of their particular skill set. Or they turned to consulting in the sunset of their careers, tired of cubicle farms and long commutes. Now, millennials, who this year became the largest proportion of the labor force, are leading the charge to change the tech industry's perception of self-employment.

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