State of the Market

[northernladuk]

stop their dirty spam tactics

And how will reporting that to a Gov agency make any difference?

[simes]

IR35 is a choice. Someone should help inform these clients that they’re intentionally making themselves less competitive for the same outlay.

Something I do with a pro forma email to every Inside role that comes my way.

[eek]

or that you’re not interested in ‘inside’ work at any price.

IR35 is a choice. Someone should help inform these clients that they’re intentionally making themselves less competitive for the same outlay.

That depends - for a manager - offering an "Outside IR35" would probably be a career destroying event, were HMRC to come calling asking about it.

A lot of multinationals have the no PSC rules because corporate memory says don't take risks

[silverlight1]

The brain washing at Cisco was impressive. Yes the rewards were high, yes the culture talked about "bring yourself to work", "be your best self", "wear pink and die your hair orange", but the underlying toxicity was immense. 10% lowest performance every year. Once I was given 10 mins to decide on the order of a team I'd been looking after for 3 weeks, then I was put on "the list" myself. It was at that point I vowed never to be in that position again.... and still they get the best employer awards.... and hire employment psychologists to make sure the masses are "happy"... madness.

My experience is that those employers with the "best / great places to work" awards are the ones to avoid.

They know they have really toxic cultures and these awards are a way to "whitewash" themselves, a bit like Saville and his charity work, or paedeo priests etc

[SueEllen]

My experience is that those employers with the "best / great places to work" awards are the ones to avoid.

They know they have really toxic cultures and these awards are a way to "whitewash" themselves, a bit like Saville and his charity work, or paedeo priests etc

You mean the places they send emails around to everyone, which are tracked, and tell you to vote for them in xxx awards?

[TheDude]

My experience is that those employers with the "best / great places to work" awards are the ones to avoid.

They know they have really toxic cultures and these awards are a way to "whitewash" themselves, a bit like Saville and his charity work, or paedeo priests etc

My beef is the companies that go out of their way to demonstrate how diverse they are yet the only person over fifty in their publicity material is the CEO.

[SueEllen]

My beef is the companies that go out of their way to demonstrate how diverse they are yet the only person over fifty in their publicity material is the CEO.

Age is normally ignored in diversity statistics.

Plus some people look younger than you think.

[TheDude]

Plus some people look younger than you think.

I am one of them and I keep quiet about my age at work.

[SueEllen]

I am one of them and I keep quiet about my age at work.

I thought I finally look old. Then a couple of months ago I got ID for alcohol in the supermarket.

[PerfectStorm]

End of contract coming up and client is rattling sabre over putting people inside IR35 AND getting people back into the office at more or less the same time. Guessing they are gluttons for punishment... back on the boards I go.