Chris Mann on Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:09:52 -0400 |
I agree, case in point: Consultants (the asp toting ones) offer to manage our MS Sql databases. Cost 34k/year. Time spent per day: 4 hours. 34k/year for a part time person? We're hiring a new body. ;) Chris Mann Systems Administrator Legg Mason Real Estate Services cmann@lmres.com 215.496.3035 >>> nsilva@atari-source.com 07/19/02 11:51AM >>> erm... if consultants didn't cost a company more, then they would just have mostly consultants instead of employees. It's just that int he SHORT term, consultants are cheaper. In the long term, employees can (should) be cheaper. It isn't worth hiring someone full time to do some project work for 3 months in most cases. Any consultant that my company has brought in and kept for more than .. 6 months to a year, they have offered a full-time position to, in order to save money (myself included!). They have to pay benefits and such then, but they can often remove a middle-man too. -- noah silva On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Art Clemons wrote: > Paul: > >Isn't it the sacred duty of a computer person to work on computer > stuff >and save or make money for the Company? In any case, consultants > >usually cost a lot more than a regular employee. And the Company can > >work the regular employee twice as hard for less pay. It works > >out...for the Company! > > Usually consultants don't cost a company more than employees doing the > same work. Consultants don't usually cost an employer's share of Social > Security and Medicare taxes. Consultants also only work as needed or > called in, and that means that the higher apparent amounts paid amount > to less in the long run. Think of consultants as part time workers > without any benefits or necessity to deal with taxes and the light > shining down makes it obvious. Some companies have used consultants > exclusively, but in some ways that's the result more of friendly to the > practice IRS rulings on who is an employee rather than any logical > consistency. In the software/computer world, it's even more problematic > determining who is an employee and who isn't. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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