Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 0:01:09 GMT -5
A Freelancers Guide to Dealing With Illness in Scroll to top Andrew Blackman Andrew Blackman Mar min read Startups Business Plans Careers Freelancing No matter how well you take care of yourself illness is inevitable. At some stage youll have to take a day or two off to recover from a cold and if youre unlucky you might have to deal with a serious longterm illness. Are you prepared ill freelancer Freelancers need to make a plan for when illness strikes. Image source Envato Elements For salaried employees its easy. They can just call in sick and then relax and concentrate.
On getting well again or watching daytime TV whichever they Country Email List prefer. Their boss will reassign their work to someone else and their paycheck at the end of the month will be unchanged. There are no real consequences. As a freelancer on the other hand the consequences can be dire. Even a quick cold or flu that knocks you out for a couple of days could have a huge impact on your business. You could easily find yourself missing deadlines possibly forfeiting your pay for those business with those clients. If your illness prevents you from working.
A long time then your . If freelancers dont work we dont get paid after all. And even when youre well again you may find that your clients have found someone else to do your job in the meantime and youre back to square one in terms of finding work. So perhaps its not surprising that many freelancers choose just to work through the illness. A study in Germany found that selfemployed workers took just three sick days per year compared with nine sick days for paid employees. Whereas of paid employees had been absent at least once in the past year that number fell to for the selfemployed. But forcing yourself to work when you really need.
On getting well again or watching daytime TV whichever they Country Email List prefer. Their boss will reassign their work to someone else and their paycheck at the end of the month will be unchanged. There are no real consequences. As a freelancer on the other hand the consequences can be dire. Even a quick cold or flu that knocks you out for a couple of days could have a huge impact on your business. You could easily find yourself missing deadlines possibly forfeiting your pay for those business with those clients. If your illness prevents you from working.
A long time then your . If freelancers dont work we dont get paid after all. And even when youre well again you may find that your clients have found someone else to do your job in the meantime and youre back to square one in terms of finding work. So perhaps its not surprising that many freelancers choose just to work through the illness. A study in Germany found that selfemployed workers took just three sick days per year compared with nine sick days for paid employees. Whereas of paid employees had been absent at least once in the past year that number fell to for the selfemployed. But forcing yourself to work when you really need.