Might CV actually offer a boom for contractors longer term?

[jamesbrown]

Is there really going to be a change? CV is just halting current business. An intermission. When it's all over, won't everybody just revert to what they were doing before?

Depends how long it lasts. The last financial crisis and recession changed the structure of the economy. There's no reason to think this looming recession will be any different - it's certainly on a much grander scale.

[d000hg]

Is there really going to be a change? CV is just halting current business. An intermission. When it's all over, won't everybody just revert to what they were doing before?

Well a huge number of businesses have tried to start online and delivery options, and trade-customer, quite clumsily.
THe paradigm of "you can't work from home" may be fundamentally shifted.

Banks have all this CBI stuff to figure out.

I dunno, more I'm just thinking of all the businesses who rushed to drop staff and then need good people really quickly. THAT is surely the main service we provide?

[MrMarkyMark]

I dunno, more I'm just thinking of all the businesses who rushed to drop staff and then need good people really quickly. THAT is surely the main service we provide?

The devil is in the detail dear boy

[OwlHoot]

We've all been doom and gloom about CV being the nail in the IR35 lid of contracting's coffin.

But think about it, many companies are laying off workforce or will be. They are trying to make huge differences to how they work, and after CV they will again have to adjust very quickly with a depleted workforce.

I wonder if that's an opportunity for contractors to provide temporary work before companies are confident to re-hire permanent staff, 6/9/12 months down the line?

How does that saying go? "When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro"

[DodgyAccountant]

We've all been doom and gloom about CV being the nail in the IR35 lid of contracting's coffin.

But think about it, many companies are laying off workforce or will be. They are trying to make huge differences to how they work, and after CV they will again have to adjust very quickly with a depleted workforce.

I wonder if that's an opportunity for contractors to provide temporary work before companies are confident to re-hire permanent staff, 6/9/12 months down the line?

I hope you are right. I was saying to agents and umbrella companies that I thought the political pressure to suspend IR35 was mounting and the government would cave - surprisingly, proved to be true. Optimism is not always misplaced.

[vetran]

How does that saying go? "When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro"

upvoted and stolen

[Whorty]

upvoted and stolen

Yes, it tickled my bits too