Some musings for a Friday...
Just got another offer from one of my consulting clients to come on board
full-time. A bit of background: I've been coding for close to 20 years, CF for
10 years. I currently have three clients: a local county government, a major
local utility and a national financial services firm.
The utility has just asked me to come on board as an employee. They are my
primary client; I currently work for them for between 30 and 40 hours a week.
I work from home four days a week and work on-site one day.
So they offer me a permanent jobBUT I won't be able to telecommute (maybe
one day a week), I will only get one week vacation (I generally take three full
weeks and lots of long weekends) to start and my starting salary will be half
of my billable rate. Even taking into account the cost of paying my own
payroll tax, it's still a huge cut.
So, my musing is Why do these companies think that consultants will accept
these offers? If they really want to hire us, why aren't they more flexible?
Or are they just asking on the off chance that they can get us cheap?
This is not the first time I have been asked to come full-time, either by this
client or others. In each case I would have been giving up so much and for
what? In today's world, taking a full-time position does not give you greater
job security than being a consultant. I have seen two rounds of layoffs at one
client site, but there was never a question of letting me go.
Just musing...
Kathryn
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