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Provisional employment only makes sense if you work remotely and have full benefits (esp. healthcare). Moving is costly.
by esafak 5mo ago
Provisional employment only makes sense if you work remotely and have full benefits (esp. healthcare). Moving is costly.
- tptacek 5mo agoA committed or indefinite term of employment is itself a benefit, so if you're going to work on a temporary basis you should expect contractor returns, not FTE comp; revise your baseline up 150%-200%. Nobody does this, of course, but then provisional employment is a silly idea to begin with.
- kasey_junk 5mo agoIt has to be more than that. 150-200 is what your rate is _if you have a pipeline for more work_. If you don’t, you need to account for building the pipeline. So if a non-contract job wants me to work like a contractor, they have to account for the risk they’ve asked me to assume. FWIW I came up with a provisional employment scheme that I thought would work at a job where I was responsible for hiring pipelines. It involved making an annual bonus (in an industry that was bonus driven) garaunteed and accelerating it so it was 50% sign on bonus and 50% delivered at 6 months. The company balked. Because provisional screening is a very good mechanism. Its must more expensive than hire and fire, at least on paper.