While some laid-off workers may get health insurance coverage though a spouse or partner, their research suggests that only about 14 percent of people who are not eligible for COBRA could get coverage through apartner or some other source after losing their job, she says.
Talent-spotting has traditionally been left to a middle-management layer of audit supervisors until people get closer to being apartner (partly because employees tend to be invisible to many of their superiors, working as they do in small teams at the offices of the client).