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Freelance Benefits

The freelance market is growing. If you're in it, there are health-insurance benefits.

By Tony LoPinto | Updated on March 27, 2013
Freelance Benefits

The “Great Recession” of 2008 – 2009 produced a bumper-crop of extraordinarily talented, accomplished, and, independent real estate consultants. Collectively they were (and still are) among the best and the brightest talent who were caught-up in the challenges of a dislocated job market. The conundrum that these professionals experience is how to deal with medical insurance coverage and other benefits that are standard for “employees”. An article this past weekend had a feature in the reporting on the Freelancers Union that provides collective medical insurance and other benefits that are provided at a price that would otherwise not be available to “independent” professionals. Check it out all you independents!

Tony LoPinto is the Global Sector Leader of Korn/Ferry International’s Real Estate Practice and founder of SelectLeaders. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own.

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