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Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report

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Re: Everyone leaving... and going where?

I recently applied for, and won, a new outside IR35 role to start in March.

Speaking with the agency, within an hour of posting, he'd had 54 applications. Normally, he would expect about 10% of that.

I suspect that the truth is that it breaks down into the usual lines:

Those who will bluster and threaten, but when it comes down to it, will let inertia govern their actions (i.e. stay where they are, even under an umbrella and take their chances);

Those who will work up to the deadline and then just take some time off, head abroad while they still can, or simply retire;

Those, like me, who began actively lookig at the start of February and into March and who will either take an outside role, or if it must be inside and via an umbrella, at least somewhere not in any way related to any places previously worked at.

Those who leave it until March may find they are up against an awful lot of competition for roles, on the one hand, but also may find that there are now plenty of umbrella-only ones suddenly available.

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