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I thought this was a post from the future confirming Reform UK are now the party in power.
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northernladuk replied to Laptop screen size for people with presbyopia (age related long sightedness)?in TechnicalI'd have to check but I think there were about 6 different choices. I'll ask her but I think she was considering with Multifocal / Trifocal Lenses which do short medium and long or Extended Depth of Focus (EDOF) Lenses which does long and medium and is for computer work specifically. The fact that reading...
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northernladuk replied to Laptop screen size for people with presbyopia (age related long sightedness)?in TechnicalHave your wife considered Refractive Lens Exchange? Both me and SWMBO are at the stage we have computer glasses and varifocals. Where as I don't mind swapping around and quite like wearing glasses she hated it and being a tad scatty was forever forgetting one or the other pairs. We looked in to RLE...
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Ask the agent via email. Nowadays most agents are on a fixed percentage and they'll generally happily tell you as there is nothing to hide. In fact it's in their best interests to disclose as it will stop contractors coming back and trying to negotiate. If it's a fixed percentage across the board then...
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Don't wish to be rude but bearing in mind this is your job how do you not know enough about IR35 to make this call? I know the burden has been passed on to whoever provides the SDS but that's still no excuse to understand the basics of what you do and how.
Playing tickbox IR35 with zero...
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