I have certainly had contracts where I could have taken on another contract 95% of the time but we all have to attend meetings and clients are going to be asking why you can't make one.
We are also in a fairly unique situation at the moment with work from home. Most of the contracts I am looking at are remote at the moment and some may stay that way but I imagine the drift back to offices is going to accelerate come spring which will make doing two at once tricky (unless paid by deliverables).
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Originally posted by ensignia View Post
Essentially everyone is a bum on seat contractor then?
So, IR35 was a good thing then it would seem...
But either way not really, you can be truely outside but still be tied to client times. Many of the offshore bods are and they are consultancies which should be outside. Not every engagement needs to be or can be delivering a product in your own time.
Last edited by northernladuk; 22 January 2022, 17:51.
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Originally posted by ensignia View Post
Essentially everyone is a bum on seat contractor then?
So, IR35 was a good thing then it would seem...
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Originally posted by Eirikur View PostWhy do people keep asking this question? I have a company am I allowed more than one client? Just think for a second.
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Originally posted by Eirikur View PostWhy do people keep asking this question? I have a company am I allowed more than one client? Just think for a second.
* Actually not strictly true; if you are writing a piece of code that is equally applicable to both, for example, then you can, but in all honesty should perhaps pro rata the charge between them.
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Why do people keep asking this question? I have a company am I allowed more than one client? Just think for a second.
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For the majority of contractors seeing WFH as an opportunity to double bubble it's a really bad idea because they can't be honest with the client about why they can't make the 0930 stand up that clashes with the 0930 stand up their other client(s) want them to be at.
If you're using client kit, you have multiple diaries to keep in sync to ensure they don't double book you!
There is nothing illegal about having multiple clients, that's how pretty much all businesses run. What you could come a cropper with are your contractual terms and being found in breach of those.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
Cannon situation is so different it's not worth him coming in every thread on this. He's not a bum on seat contractor, or at least not all his gigs are and he's obviously double billing his clients and they wouldn't be happy with it but he's experienced enough to get away with it and not let it bother him.
Him popping up on these threads saying he does it with absolutely no detail is of little use to the OP's posting as he's a world apart from them in situation, experience and attitude to risk. I am sure he does what he does quite successfully but it is not in context with the question being asked by these types of posters.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
Cannon situation is so different it's not worth him coming in every thread on this. He's not a bum on seat contractor, or at least not all his gigs are and he's obviously double billing his clients and they wouldn't be happy with it but he's experienced enough to get away with it and not let it bother him.
Him popping up on these threads saying he does it with absolutely no detail is of little use to the OP's posting as he's a world apart from them in situation, experience and attitude to risk. I am sure he does what he does quite successfully but it is not in context with the question being asked by these types of posters.
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post
But you don't bill 3 clients each at 16 hours per day.
Him popping up on these threads saying he does it with absolutely no detail is of little use to the OP's posting as he's a world apart from them in situation, experience and attitude to risk. I am sure he does what he does quite successfully but it is not in context with the question being asked by these types of posters.
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post
If you are billing on time and bill each client for an 8 hour day, then you're in trouble.
If you're billing for the time you work, and each one is being billed for the amount of time you spend working for them - that would be OK, but then you are billing on what you are delivering, not just on an 8 hour day.
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Originally posted by cannon999 View Post
How? I work with 3 clients and bill all of them on time.
If you're billing for the time you work, and each one is being billed for the amount of time you spend working for them - that would be OK, but then you are billing on what you are delivering, not just on an 8 hour day.
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