Reply to: What are the insurers going to do after next April?

[Fred Bloggs]

Ideally?

They will go tits up.

Can't really say I feel much sympathy myself to be honest.

[jamesbrown]

How do you go about finding remote work with US-based companies?

Have something worth selling, get some contacts in the US, sell it. I started out by partnering with small companies (some EU based) that had existing US business and bidding on contracts with them as prime, me sub. I also built some contacts when living there for several years.

Probably ain't going to happen if you're a generalist/coder because anyone can hire them from anywhere - there are bazillions of good ones in the US to choose from.

[jamesbrown]

Ideally?

They will go tits up.

[Fred Bloggs]

The explosion isn't nearby though- it's remote

- unless they are sending you the remote so you cop the blame

Piper Alpha, Texas City refinery, Gulf of Mexico..... sadly many more.

[eek]

Aren't explosions the last thing you want in O&G?

The explosion isn't nearby though- it's remote

- unless they are sending you the remote so you cop the blame

[Fred Bloggs]

Aren't explosions the last thing you want in O&G?

[NotAllThere]

A lot of work? Cripes, you must have an amazing skill set. I had no offers since 2015 and had to go overseas (oil and gas).

There's an explosion in remote work opportunities

Aren't explosions the last thing you want in O&G?

[Lance]

The insurers will add to their portfolio of offerings, insurance to companies - as well as maintaining insurance for those that find Outside roles.

You mean carry on exactly and they are..

[simes]

When (almost) everyone is paid through PAYE payroll next year, what happens to the businesses that depend on providing nano limited companies with insurance against HMRC investigations? (Thoughts prompted by another thread here asking about insurance for past contracts). What are our "friends" at places like IPSE going yo do? Assuming their move fishing in the wider self employed fish pond has pretty much failed, what happens next at places like that, QDOS etc....?

The insurers will add to their portfolio of offerings, insurance to companies - as well as maintaining insurance for those that find Outside roles.

[lecyclist]

There's an explosion in remote work opportunities (probably IR35-friendly) in the last few months, particularly with US-based clients.

Really interesting thanks - a quick browse of Dice confirms what you said.

Not appealing to me due to my European timezone and family commitments, but if I was single I would consider relocation to Barbados for a few months and take advantage of these opportunities.

Barbados is introducing a visa that will allow foreigners to work remotely on its beaches | National Post

[Fred Bloggs]

How do you go about finding remote work with US-based companies?

I suspect you aren't the only person wondering about that.

[merseygrit]

There's an explosion in remote work opportunities (probably IR35-friendly) in the last few months, particularly with US-based clients.

How do you go about finding remote work with US-based companies?

[eek]

Depends what you work in. Public Sector IT jobs have swung back to Outside now. At least 60% of the stuff I'm seeing coming through on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework is declared as outside.

The smarter insurers are ramping up to sell insurance products to the clients instead of us. Status Review - IR35 Compliance Management - Qdos

Everything in digital outcomes should be outside

[DaveB]

Interesting, the world's passing me by, obviously.

Depends what you work in. Public Sector IT jobs have swung back to Outside now. At least 60% of the stuff I'm seeing coming through on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework is declared as outside.

The smarter insurers are ramping up to sell insurance products to the clients instead of us. Status Review - IR35 Compliance Management - Qdos

[Fred Bloggs]

Ive also had to move overseas and I don’t see any improvement at all since brexit 2016

In fact things seem to have got far far worse. This is banking London contractor market where rates used to be good and people could simply cross the street and work at a new place one week to the next.

I don’t know whether it is ir35 brexit or covid but the market in Canary Wharf is dead

Same in O&G. We were lucky to have some epic rates for a number of years. But since mid 2014 the entire industry has basically collapsed for Western workers. After almost 18 months of no work, I was forced to go overseas or starve. I have now semi retired back to the UK. I see nothing good following April 2021 for the businesses who rely almost solely on limited company contractors for the bulk of their business. If there's less than 90 per cent contingent workers on PAYE assignments I would be very surprised. That's how it is in the rest of the world.