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Freelance Guide:
Umbrella Company with Linkao

Umbrella company employment is a modern solution that allows freelancers to grow their activity with full autonomy while benefiting from the security of employee status. With Linkao, you combine entrepreneurial freedom with complete social protection.

What is umbrella company employment?

A hybrid model between employment and entrepreneurship, based on a three-party relationship:

The freelancer (you): you find your missions and negotiate your services.

The client company: it benefits from your expertise.

The umbrella company (Linkao): it handles admin, invoices clients, and pays you a salary.

How it works at Linkao

01

You find a mission or a client

02

You define your terms (price, duration, scope)

03

Linkao signs the contract with your client

04

We invoice the service

05

You receive a monthly salary after deduction of charges

Benefits with Linkao

Employee status

Full pension, health insurance, and unemployment benefits.

Full freedom

Choose your missions, clients,
and schedule.

Zero admin

Invoicing, contracts, and payments handled seamlessly by Linkao.

Personal support

Dedicated advisor to help
grow your activity.

Who is it for?

Independent consultants
Trainers
IT & digital experts
Engineers
Marketing, Comms & HR
Solo workers & freelancers

Steps to get started

01RegistrationCreate your account online
02Contract signingSign your umbrella contract
03Monthly salaryLinkao invoices, you get paid
04Mission startStart working with your clients

Frequently asked
questions

Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us at contact@linkao.fr and our team will be happy to help.

It is a three-party arrangement: you work for your clients as usual while Linkao employs you, invoices on your behalf, and turns your revenue into a salary with full benefits.

You avoid setting up a company, secure your income and gain employee status — pension, health cover, unemployment insurance — with complete administrative, social and financial support.

Completely. You choose your clients, negotiate your rates, and organise your schedule — Linkao never interferes with how you work.

Yes. As an employee you contribute to unemployment insurance, so you build ARE entitlements like any salaried worker.

Linkao invoices your clients, deducts social charges and its management fee, and pays you a monthly salary with a payslip.

Yes — to both the general pension scheme and the AGIRC-ARRCO supplementary scheme, exactly like a standard employee.

All intellectual-service professions: IT, consulting, marketing, HR, training, engineering, design… Regulated professions and manual trades are excluded.

No. That is the whole point: no structure to create or manage — you sign an employment contract with Linkao and can start immediately.

Yes, you can work internationally, depending on the nature of the assignment and the contractual rules. Linkao handles the contract and invoicing specifics with your foreign clients.

They combine the mandatory social contributions and the management fee Linkao charges for running your activity. Use the simulator to see their exact impact on your net pay.

Yes, you negotiate your daily rate directly with your clients. Linkao simply turns what you invoice into salary.

Very much so: you can test your activity with zero setup, full social protection, and support from a dedicated advisor.