How many have gone permie

[zara_backdog]

Think I would take anything at the moment! - more to keep my skills up-to-date then anything

[lightng]

Think I would take anything at the moment! - more to keep my skills up-to-date then anything

I'm looking at both camps too.

Had very few bites in the contractor market this last two months. As soon as I started looking at perm roles, I've had offers for interviews left, right and centre. Apparently a lot of permies are reluctant to move during a recession so labour supply is pretty short for permie roles.

[alreadypacked]

I was talking with an agent who was trying to get me to go Permie. He suggested he should would call me after I had been on the bench for a month. I said a year and a month would be too soon.

[Mich the Tester]

I was talking with an agent who was trying to get me to go Permie. He suggested he should would call me after I had been on the bench for a month. I said a year and a month would be too soon.

In the last month I've had 4 agents phoning me trying to sell me permie jobs. They all say 'the market's bad you know, it could be a good option right now'. I answered 'since you called me, and I'm in contract, the market can't be all that bad'.

[VectraMan]

Apparently a lot of permies are reluctant to move during a recession so labour supply is pretty short for permie roles.

I think there's also a number of employers seeing the downturn as an oppurtunity to attract better people at bargain basement prices.

I've seen some quite good permie roles (compared to zero good contract roles), but often at not much more than £30K. It'd pay the bills, but I think I'd rather work in a factory to pay the bills, and save my code-monkeying muscles for working on the Plan B. I'm just not sure I could manage working hard for somebody else, unless I was being properly rewarded.

[Andy2]

Looks like 33% are benched or gone permie