Company email address?

[jayn200]

Register for a domain name (just cost a couple £ a year) and then register for microsoft developer program, it's free and you get a free E5 license which will let you use Outlook and Teams amongst other things.

As far as what this means for Outside/Inside, I really don't think it's very relevant. You are not supposed to be part of the company hierarchy if you're outside but lots of external companies will have internal client email addresses even though they are not part of the company hierarchy. If they do provide you with an email address just make sure you also have one for your company and that all communication regarding contracts/invoices/billing/etc is sent from your company email. Also make sure anything you need to potentially prove anything from a legal standpoint is sent from your company email as well as you may need access to this after you leave.

It's quite normal for an outsourced IT company to have an account on client's domain including email address. Honestly I don't know how you would operate without one.

[NotAllThere]

All the has been removed. Do try to not react if someone is rude to you. The correct way is to report to moderator. Not to bypass the swear filters or pile in.

Is the chap not talking about being assigned an email address with his client's suffix? Not his own LtdCo email address, which he may or may not have?

Yes.

Either way, if he's not assigned a client based email address, that would likely help his Outside status and thus all email goes to his personal/LtdCo address.

No/yes.

I.e. if email goes to his personal address that's a bad thing. If it goes to his company's domain email address that's a good thing. But since many consultancies and the like get issued with client email addresses when they're on site, it's marginal at best.

And I think that's all the useful information in this thread completely summarised.

[courtg9000]

over my many years in the contracting trade I came across some contractors with truly awful email addresses ****[email protected] and dirty*****@yahoo are 2 that instantly spring to mind.
We are all and I mean the entire effing industry supposed to be professionals. Using free mail for commercial purposes let alone examples like the 2 above in my opinion lets our collective side down

[simes]

The name of my company was in some part determined by what .com domain address was available. I also have the .co.uk variant too.

I do know people who have contracted for years off a Hotmail or Yahoo email address but I never understood why, for the sake of a legitimate expenditure of a few quid a year, they never paid for their own domain name.

You can go the O365 route - I have had the Action Pack subscription for years because I felt it was important to stay current with the software my clients would be using. Or you can go Google suite route. Both are easy to configure with a custom domain.

Expecting the client to set you up with their email and then complaining about having to use your personal email is a bit lame. Do you also expect them to send you pens and notebooks?

Is the chap not talking about being assigned an email address with his client's suffix? Not his own LtdCo email address, which he may or may not have?

Either way, if he's not assigned a client based email address, that would likely help his Outside status and thus all email goes to his personal/LtdCo address. Which, in my experience, has not Been a norm, but might be a new norm?

[Lance]

Not having a client e-mail is a little odd on a traditional contract - getting given client accounts is common even in corporate consultancy. I certainly don't see how using one is an IR35 indicator, but if that's what they need to class you as outside then take it.


You should have your own corporate mail anyway. My work has always been a mixture of both and I just use whatever suits each project. Some are entirely my own, some are a mixture, others like the place I am now would see me marched off site if I used my own for anything.

It will be based on the weak pointer of using your own tools.
Client decides the contractor cannot have a laptop. Security policy says cannot use corporate email account on personal PC.

I have a contract like that, but it does have a problem now as I need to access their secure designs, but for that I need their device. So I need to go to site to get one for just one document.

[vwdan]

Not having a client e-mail is a little odd on a traditional contract - getting given client accounts is common even in corporate consultancy. I certainly don't see how using one is an IR35 indicator, but if that's what they need to class you as outside then take it.


You should have your own corporate mail anyway. My work has always been a mixture of both and I just use whatever suits each project. Some are entirely my own, some are a mixture, others like the place I am now would see me marched off site if I used my own for anything.

[ladymuck]

The name of my company was in some part determined by what .com domain address was available. I also have the .co.uk variant too.

I do know people who have contracted for years off a Hotmail or Yahoo email address but I never understood why, for the sake of a legitimate expenditure of a few quid a year, they never paid for their own domain name.

You can go the O365 route - I have had the Action Pack subscription for years because I felt it was important to stay current with the software my clients would be using. Or you can go Google suite route. Both are easy to configure with a custom domain.

Expecting the client to set you up with their email and then complaining about having to use your personal email is a bit lame. Do you also expect them to send you pens and notebooks?

[Lance]

Just had the fortune of bagging a new project (was about to throw in the towel) however due to the post april IR35 changes apparently they can't assign me a company email address therefore all work related jazz is smashing my personal email address.

OTT or the new norm? I'm not a massive MS fan but Outlook was efficient (far more so than Gmail, ugh)

your what?
How do you email your accountant?
Do you run a business?

Do yourself a favour and get a proper business email account. Office 365 is a good start, as that means you'll get the productivity tools, Teams etc., that you'll likely need now you have to provide your own tools.
You can get O365 via MSDN, or the Action Pack.

[northernladuk]

Just had the fortune of bagging a new project (was about to throw in the towel) however due to the post april IR35 changes apparently they can't assign me a company email address therefore all work related jazz is smashing my personal email address.

OTT or the new norm? I'm not a massive MS fan but Outlook was efficient (far more so than Gmail, ugh)

You want to be treated as an independent supplier to be outside IR35 then you gotta act like one. How many times have you ever mailed an external supplier on his personal address? Talk about putting yourself inside.

[malvolio]

You can persuade Outlook to use GMail as it IMAP source. Takes a bit of fiddling but I've been using it for years. Google is your friend...

[HoofHearted]

Don't you have your own company email address?

[ApeShape]

Just had the fortune of bagging a new project (was about to throw in the towel) however due to the post april IR35 changes apparently they can't assign me a company email address therefore all work related jazz is smashing my personal email address.

OTT or the new norm? I'm not a massive MS fan but Outlook was efficient (far more so than Gmail, ugh)