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Indeed, one of my colleagues (who admittedly works mainly at a permanent location, but does occasionally visit temp sites) has been told by his umrella company that he can no longer claim ANY T&S, whatever the circumstances. Bye Bye Brolly I think.
Myself, and all the perms in the company who carry out identical duties, are defined as "home based", confirmed by my line manager (and in my contract), so no permanent base exists away from my home location.
I am currently contracting as a field service engineer in the IT industry working under an umbrella company (inside IR35).
My routine is that I visit several different customer sites each day, providing 2hr/4hr/next business day responses to fault calls logged with various hardware providers...