Not everyone is lucky enough to keep working Outside IR35. In the area I work, there are no Outside IR35 gigs left, its as if every client has introduced a blanket ban. And now that agencies have sort of, worked out how IR35 works they dont seem to want to deal with Outside IR35 gigs anymore, in practice.
Lets not beat about the bush, all of this is a function of Covid and IR35 changes. Terrible rates, erosion of worker rights, more power to clients and agencies, even worse practices from agencies, more interaction and admin with tulipty brollies. I've had several recruiters tell me just recently that a lot of contractors (in my space) have moved into permanent contracts, and that clients are finding it hard to find good contractors. Which is better for me I guess. I put my CV online on the Monday and had a job by Thursday. However experiences like this, make contracting far less appealing.
I'm sure theres alot of people out there still stuck in what I call "Covid jobs" i.e. jobs they only took because of covid, and as the economy is improving now everyone will be jumping ship, left, right n centre. There will be more and more people breaching contracts to jump back into high quality jobs.
If you took a £40k job due to Covid and you land a pre-covid £80k job again and the client asks you to start in 2 weeks (and you have 4 weeks notice), im sure as hell sure that 99% of people will breach and take the slack. Especially if you have kids and a mortgage. These are once in a lifetime extenuating circumstances.
Lets not beat about the bush, all of this is a function of Covid and IR35 changes. Terrible rates, erosion of worker rights, more power to clients and agencies, even worse practices from agencies, more interaction and admin with tulipty brollies. I've had several recruiters tell me just recently that a lot of contractors (in my space) have moved into permanent contracts, and that clients are finding it hard to find good contractors. Which is better for me I guess. I put my CV online on the Monday and had a job by Thursday. However experiences like this, make contracting far less appealing.
I'm sure theres alot of people out there still stuck in what I call "Covid jobs" i.e. jobs they only took because of covid, and as the economy is improving now everyone will be jumping ship, left, right n centre. There will be more and more people breaching contracts to jump back into high quality jobs.
If you took a £40k job due to Covid and you land a pre-covid £80k job again and the client asks you to start in 2 weeks (and you have 4 weeks notice), im sure as hell sure that 99% of people will breach and take the slack. Especially if you have kids and a mortgage. These are once in a lifetime extenuating circumstances.
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