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    Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
    It was a joke. Data scientists don't really do humour I take it?
    I'm sure they are smiling...behind those long grey beards.
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      Emailed by an agent today about a public sector contract with this...

      Duration: 6 months – forecast 24 months
      IR35 Status: most likely outside, this will be determined once hired.

      Is this a new thing? You need to win the gig to find out if its inside or outside.. or maybe he means when already on site. Who would be that dumb?

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        Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
        Emailed by an agent today about a public sector contract with this...

        Duration: 6 months – forecast 24 months
        IR35 Status: most likely outside, this will be determined once hired.

        Is this a new thing? You need to win the gig to find out if its inside or outside.. or maybe he means when already on site. Who would be that dumb?
        Technically, it's correct IR35 status should be determined by the contractor and customer together as all relationships are different and some contractors act as employees.
        merely at clientco for the entertainment

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          Originally posted by eek View Post
          Technically, it's correct IR35 status should be determined by the contractor and customer together as all relationships are different and some contractors act as employees.
          The final arbiter being the client. I do wonder sometimes why a client would want to hire a contractor and for them inside IR35. Why not just hire a permie, or a contractor outside IR35? What is the lure to do this?

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          Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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            Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
            Emailed by an agent today about a public sector contract with this...

            Duration: 6 months – forecast 24 months
            IR35 Status: most likely outside, this will be determined once hired.

            Is this a new thing? You need to win the gig to find out if its inside or outside.. or maybe he means when already on site. Who would be that dumb?
            Of the 500+ who have probably applied for the role, I'd say all of them.
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              Surely every agent knows that if the say "inside" no one will bother applying so they say "most likely outside" until you're there, it's two weeks till April and you find out that "it's always been advertised as inside".

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                Originally posted by dsc View Post
                Surely every agent knows that if the say "inside" no one will bother applying so they say "most likely outside" until you're there, it's two weeks till April and you find out that "it's always been advertised as inside".
                Not in this market

                Hundreds will apply


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                  Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
                  Emailed by an agent today about a public sector contract with this...

                  Duration: 6 months – forecast 24 months
                  IR35 Status: most likely outside, this will be determined once hired.

                  Is this a new thing? You need to win the gig to find out if its inside or outside.. or maybe he means when already on site. Who would be that dumb?
                  public sector=inside ir35

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                    Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
                    public sector=inside ir35
                    Not necessarily but highly likely.

                    Lots of agencies readvertise stuff that's put on DOS4 and quite a lot is outside

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                      Software dev market's really, really quiet at the moment. I do wonder how much of this is the usual post-Christmas lull and how much of it is attributable to the ir35 mess.

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