It’s an indicator which would be taken into account with several other factors.
in the days before WFH was a widespread thing I worked at offices that were physically only open from about 0800 to 1800 so you didn’t really have much choice in working hours.
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Unless you have one of these fabled niche skills I wouldn’t bother going back into contracting as it looks to be over as a mass industry, although permanent roles aren’t far behind it.
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Without wishing to continue the Four Yorkshireman theme, my last contract but one involved traveling from the Sussex coast to St Neots in Cambridgeshire once a week, which involved getting up at 0430 to catch the first train to London and getting home at nearly 2100.
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