Terminating my Inside IR35 contract position within the first month

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Do not be surprised if your umbrella tells you that you can't give notice and must finish the assignment. I was through a large umbrella that got hacked and went lights out for several weeks. I decided to give notice to my public sector client (having worked there for well over a year) and the umbrella told me that I was not allowed to give notice and they would hold me to the contract.

They let me go after I kicked up a huge stink over the whole being hacked thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if your umbrella try and play hardball.

I would be surprised but if you have such an issue post it here and I'm sure we can provide advice.

[Yuri F]

Inside IR35 contracts normally do have holidays and sick-day flexibility (sometimes probably not paid? but mine were mostly covered), so you can play that card,
to avoid being a total &$$ just spend an extra effort for heads-up within project team managers (for better resource planning, your agency or client - whatever preferred code of conduct is as per T&C) and use say a week to prepare a smooth handover.
I've applied such backdoor once for hooping onto a Outside IR35 option

As for both - several years ago ago used to work 3 remote contracts at once in IT sector (with one overlapping week having 4 contracts, but new ones were still in onboarding stage waiting for laptops/passwords, onboarding in one company took 8 weeks! {all paid!!}, therefore wasn't a burden really)
None of the contracts had restrictions preventing from providing services to other clients (probably the only limit was for Inside - hours, others were about project delivery milestones) - as long as clients do not compete (mine were from different industries).

Well, my conclusion - never again, nearly crossed the red line of burnout after nearly 4 months, IMV money aren't worth it.
thankfully spotted early signs in advance, month before (shortened sleep cycle, focus impact, degraded quality of code logic, etc.) - therefore managed to invoke contingency plan before things went south (actually prepared action-plan/bluebook/exit-plan before accepting multiple contracts - spent whole weekend for analysis and risk-assessment before signing contracts).
Had to urgently press eject button first on InsideIR35 (on technicality - agency just has lost rights to supply labor force for this client and handed over their staff working there {me incl.} to another agency) - put an effort for 4 days rapid handover.
Then within termination clause limits (2 weeks) phased-out another OutsideIR35 contract sitting at the bottom of priorities list (during covid some companies went critical and internal environment got mad over there)
One Outside IR35 has expired naturally and I've decided not to extend it.
Leaving last Outside of IR35 sitting on a top of priority list (max money / least effort).
It took 6 months to cool down to normal human levels after all this nightmare - I've got a feeling what some members of a team I was leading on final contract were a bit "unhappy" (on lower-end, stakeholders were quite fine with the pace of progress) about level of hyper-activity project was moving on (as side-effect of trying to complete many tasks on multiple contracts every day - suddenly all that inertia-based energy was allocated to a single project).

[gables]

Do not be surprised if your umbrella tells you that you can't give notice and must finish the assignment. I was through a large umbrella that got hacked and went lights out for several weeks. I decided to give notice to my public sector client (having worked there for well over a year) and the umbrella told me that I was not allowed to give notice and they would hold me to the contract.

They let me go after I kicked up a huge stink over the whole being hacked thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if your umbrella try and play hardball.

I finished a contract early by mutual consent with a client, 4 months instead of 6, and the umbrella (Paystream) were fine so was the agency which was a surprise.