do you work for the agency or for yourself?

[expat]

I had one agency who wanted me to be one of theirs, as far as the client was concerned. For example, they gave me an email address at their domain, and said they wanted me to use that in all my communications with the client.

Is this reasonable? Would you do it?

Are you a resource that the agency provides to the client, or are you an independent contractor sourced by the agency for the client?

Or are you AndyW and you don't care as long as you get paid?

[zara_backdog]

Might be the wrong choise but I would go for the Andy W option !

[ratewhore]

I had one agency who wanted me to be one of theirs, as far as the client was concerned. For example, they gave me an email address at their domain, and said they wanted me to use that in all my communications with the client.

Is this reasonable? Would you do it?

Are you a resource that the agency provides to the client, or are you an independent contractor sourced by the agency for the client?

Or are you AndyW and you don't care as long as you get paid?

Nope and independent.

Tell the pimp to shove it up his hoop...

[expat]

Nope and independent.

Tell the pimp to shove it up his hoop...

Well, I ate it up on the grounds that, although I didn't like it, I expect a certain amount of effin aboot from an agent, so I'd let one go. Subsequent events proved that what I was doing was ignoring a warning sign......

So I changed my ways: all communications have my email and business phone number on them. Even when I'm using the client addresses, on go my own at the bottom for reference.

Reason 1: they might want to contact me when I'm not in the office.
Reason 2: they might want to contact me later in life without passing by an intermediary ...

[HairyArsedBloke]

Any IR 35 Issues? And what is it gonna do to your house price?

Myself, in my day I'd tell 'em to shove it. Remember, they are agent for the clientco not for you.

[BrowneIssue]

do you work for the agency or for yourself?

Neither.

I work for a small Ltd Co owned by me and Her Ladyship.

[NotAllThere]

I did work for a consultancy that wanted that. They wanted us to look like employees of the consultancy to their client. The contract I had was direct with the consultancy.

I would never do it again.

[BrilloPad]

In the current market I would go for it : then just do my own thing. think of the money!

[FarmerPalmer]

I am employed by the limited company of which I am a director and owner.

I have an email address at client co and at intermediate co, but I have set both to forward all email to my own company email address, which is all I use.

I do all development and documentation on my own equipment and only use client co equipment to put stuff into configuration management tools once completed, and to test on - my co doesn't own a railway signalling system.

[Bagpuss]

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.