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I must have been lucky... in 11 years I've only had two clients that had a xmas furlough (both FS firms) and both times my project's critical timescale meant I was exempt.

During Covid, I had one local government client that tried to being in 10% rate cuts at renewals to reflect the supposed...

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This is the killer that I think is only really starting to hit home for many people - contractors as well as perms. Yes, real rates probably peaked in the early 2000s but the after inflation decline is a slow long term trend that feels like it has no end in sight.

According to the Bank...

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Minimial chargeable cost to you as a customer maybe but Amazon spent approximately£235B on technology and infrastructure expenses in the last five years, i.e. massive investment.

In contrast, the NHS was given £2B in Spring 2024 for technology transformation. In 2022, £2B was also allocated...

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Surprise...

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Not particularly crazy, this sort of thing has been happening since the 70s. First past the post rewards parties with geographic concentrations of seats.

The Liberal SDP Alliance got over 25% of the vote in 1983 and were only 2% off coming second but got just 23 seats.

In...

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I'm not, I wouldn't vote for them in a million years....

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Plummeting birth rates is hardly news. The proposed solutions mentioned in the GB News article haven't worked in countries like the Nordics where they have excellent family orientated policies and welfare state. Yet their birth rates have been falling for decades too. It's been below the replacement...

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We might as well have multiple threads in that case, there is no single market for IT skills. There is a broad range of skillsets, sectors, types of organisation and geography that make the usefulness of comparisons fairly limited.

Most of the posts on here are fairly narrow in scope and...

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The S&P is very heavily weighted towards tech stocks now, mainly the so called Magnificent Seven, a few chip firms and the largest SaaS firms. The top 25 stocks by size account for nearly 50% of the total index and tech makes up over 40% of that. And I believe that it would be more but there is...

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Doesn't seem much uncertainty about the UK election. Labour to win big, just a question of how big....

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Junior health minister Maria Caulfield also criticised Starmer, saying she works seven days a week and up to 20 hours a day.

Given how useless much of our healthcare system is perhaps she's not working hard enough and needs to do 28 hours a day, eight days a week?

Pathetic...

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I don't think that's true for all the public and not for profit sectors. Local government is different as a significant proportion of their funding comes from central government but this has fallen substantially in real terms. One council I've worked with on and off for 20 years has gone through about...

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I've had the same situation, it shouldn't be that big a deal.

Firstly, QDOS should be able to do a 24 hour turnaround for a contract review for an extra fee.

IIRC correctly, the absence of deliverables weren't an issue for QDOS. It was good enough that I said there would be...

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Hitchcock...