How To Handle a Client Wanting Work When You're Sick?
From Hit Subscribe Freelancer Q&A by Erik Dietrich
July 15, 2025 · 23 min
About this episode
The episode discusses how to manage client expectations when a freelancer falls ill during a critical project deadline.
You're collaborating with your client on a time-sensitive deadline and you get sick. How should you handle that? Whose problem is it, ultimately? Join us to learn more. View this podcast as a video on YouTube. Links of the week: Enov8's list of enterprise architecture tools to be aware of in 2025. This introduction to the subject of log parsing from Sawmills.Tricentis's legacy tool replacement solutions (also in German and French).A guide from Testim on unit testing in React ...
People in this episode
Host: Erik Dietrich
Topics covered
- client management
- sickness
- time-sensitive deadlines
- freelancing
- work-life balance
Keywords
- client communication
- freelancer health
- project deadlines
- sick leave
- work management
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Organizations: Enov8, Sawmills, Tricentis, Testim
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