Thanks for your comments. A couple of points in response:
As I said in post #1 and post#12 I have not suggested a Co-op.
I'm simply suggesting that we could own a recruitment agency and share in any profits as shareholders.
There is no question of anyone not pulling their weight as no-one would be under any obligations to the agency, and no-one would pay fees to anyone regarding this. The agency would earn fees from margin on placements in exactly the same way as every other agency that any of us have worked with.
Each shareholder (i.e. us) would have a simple choice of working via another agency and never seeing any of the margin that is subtracted before the Contractor is paid (as it goes (after costs) to whoever owns the agency), or working via this agency and potentially getting some back as a shareholder.
Quite the opposite!
I would want the agency to operate on a commercial basis, and to make a net profit that can be distributed to shareholders; of which I would be one.
Again, if whichever agency places me is going to make a profit out of me, I would prefer it be the agency that I partially own!
Thanks. It was just an idea, but with further thought and comments on here it does seem to have some traction.
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I'm simply suggesting that we could own a recruitment agency and share in any profits as shareholders.
There is no question of anyone not pulling their weight as no-one would be under any obligations to the agency, and no-one would pay fees to anyone regarding this. The agency would earn fees from margin on placements in exactly the same way as every other agency that any of us have worked with.
Each shareholder (i.e. us) would have a simple choice of working via another agency and never seeing any of the margin that is subtracted before the Contractor is paid (as it goes (after costs) to whoever owns the agency), or working via this agency and potentially getting some back as a shareholder.
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I would want the agency to operate on a commercial basis, and to make a net profit that can be distributed to shareholders; of which I would be one.
Again, if whichever agency places me is going to make a profit out of me, I would prefer it be the agency that I partially own!
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