do you work for the agency or for yourself?

**expat** · 20 February 2009, 10:28

Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post

Expat- can't see the difference between being given an agency email or a client email address. Pref should be neither, but both options appear equal from an IR35 perspective, IMHO.

I wasn't thinking of IR35 at all (as it happens I was in Switzerland at the time). I was thinking of the agency trying to sell me as "one of them" rather than as me, that they found for the client.

Client email has obvious practical utility. Agency email, with a request to use only that to client, is a possessiveness IMHO. Not to mention a way of ensuring that the client doesn't have your contact details after you've gone.

**walterboy** · 20 February 2009, 11:10

Does the client really think you work for the agency?
Surely the words "employment agency" means that you dont!

Did the agency provide a phone too?
Otherwise, you would have to give them your own number, unless the client gave you one, or you really dont need to talk to anyone!

By the way, I'm new here so Hi all