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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.
>
>
>
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