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> It's also unclear to me why somebody would do that, Because if you "contract" someone and they are later found to not qualify as that you can be forced to re
by detaro 4y ago
> It's also unclear to me why somebody would do that,
Because if you "contract" someone and they are later found to not qualify as that you can be forced to retroactively treat them as employees (e.g. pay their health/social insurance, fix your tax reporting about them, ...), it might be counted as tax evasion, ... Details about what exactly the rules are that need to be met vary by jurisdiction obviously.
- EvanAnderson 4y agoI meant: Why would someone run a contacting company for one customer? That sounds precarious and silly to me. Having a diversity of customers always made sense to me.
- detaro 4y agoFrom what I've seen: Acquiring new customers can be hard, and if someone is willing to pay for you full-time it's the easy path to just do that and kind of forget about adding on other projects (and the effort of balancing them etc)
- EvanAnderson 4y agoThat gives me the willies, personally. Given that contractors have no employee protections (such as they are) it’s even more troubling. I started contracting because I saw it as a way to get some security. With a job I was effectively a business with a single Customer. Losing that relationship meant losing all my income (and health insurance). One fickle manager or business downturn and I might be in a world of trouble. Having multiple Customers meant that I could screw up, survive a bad manager, lose a Customer’s downturn, etc, and not be scrambling.