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No I don't and it depends whether I work on-site or from my own home office. To work as a contractor has both benefits and downsides, which are typically the re
by pan69 16y ago
No I don't and it depends whether I work on-site or from my own home office. To work as a contractor has both benefits and downsides, which are typically the reverse of being full-time employed. My hourly (daily) rates are based on the fact that I might not be able to fill 40 hours of work week after week. So, in a sense, my clients also sort of pay me for the time I'm not working. That's why my rates are set to a certain level, and it's also the reason contractors are more expensive than full-time employees. If I happen to be working from home and I do work for 2 clients and both jobs take me 4 hours, than in that single day I earn twice as much. However, the next two days I might not be able to bill anything. Pros and cons of contracting I guess.
- jimbokun 16y agoDo you make this clear to your clients? If I was told I was being billed for "one day" of your time, I would expect that you were spending about 8 hours working on my task. To find out otherwise, I would feel that I had been lied to.
- pan69 16y agoYes. I make this perfectly clear to my clients. If they give me 4 hours worth of work I still charge them for 1 entire day. And to be quite frankly, what I do with those other 4 hours is none of their business.