Follow up on 'Consultants vs. Employees'(backforty.io)
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Follow up on 'Consultants vs. Employees'
http://www.backforty.io/blog/2014/1/employees-vs-consultants-followup
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1) Charging for Bathroom Breaks
Whether you charge a higher rate so that you don't have to work the time, or a lower number and count the time in the bathroom it should all be equal. If it's not, well, I don't really want to be related to the business of whether a person will be penalized for a required natural bodily function.
Whether you charge a higher rate so that you don't have to work the time, or a lower number and count the time in the bathroom it should all be equal. If it's not, well, I don't really want to be related to the business of whether a person will be penalized for a required natural bodily function.
This is much different than money. My first thought would be lifetime support costs and future autonomy.
My other experiences with consulting is that while consultants "just want to code", for their bill-ables and deliverables are much more important than well-written code.
In particular, this is expressed with agencies / consultancies scaling. In order to continue profit margins, agencies must hirer lesser experienced and cheaper consultants as the number of projects grow. Without billing for training, this results in a very disparate deliverable.
A final emphasis is that consulting often doesn't result in tested code (healthcare.gov) because the client isn't often isn't willing to spend the extra money on a product that should be deliverable (and huge assumption, but bug free)