Many companies seem genuinely shocked when the newly arrived contractor fails to meet expectations. How could an agency possibly send an unqualified person to their office? Personal experience suggests that infamous catchall culprit – communications

john (4/15/2008)

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Speaking as a former freelance contractor now turned back to the ways of regular paychecks, I thought the article was very fair and reflects my own experience.

john (4/15/2008)

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Hi

Thanks to this government and partly to the sort of work I used to do, the costs of continuing to do business as a freelancer, and particularly the fees paid to people in sharp suits to keep the taxman off my back, rose to the point where I was paying others more than myself.

I took a permanent post at my final client. It makes be simultaneously smile and weep that (a) I was, without doubt, one of the poorest paid freelancers in the building (b) I am probably being paid more than others in other companies doing the same job, (c) If you add togetther my GROSS salary AND the Employers National Insurance, my employer is now paying out, per month, *MORE* than they were paying to my limited company and (d) I now get to keep MORE of that as taxed income than I was able to take as remuneration from my company after I had chucked backhanders to the guys in sharp suits and all the other scum.

Gordon Brown must be really pleased with himself.