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Use this service to find out if you, or a worker on a specific engagement, should be classed as employed or self-employed for tax purposes.
- Improving the worst chair in the office | Serviced Office Company servicedofficecompany.co.uk
- Contractor travel expenses, tax relief and the 24-month rule explained contractorcalculator.co.uk
- Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum okigiveup.net
‘The CIPD survey also cites bad management as a cause of job dissatisfaction.’ David Brent (Ricky Gervais) in The OfficePhotograph: Adrian Rogers/BBC A re you…
- Being self-employed means freedom. Freedom to be abused and underpaid | Aditya Chakrabortty theguardian.com
‘If a courier gets sick or is involved in an accident, the company can just drop them.’Illustration: Bill Bragg H ere are two things you probably know. First,…
- HMRC Employment Status Manual hmrc.gov.uk
- When clients blur your IR35 status :: Contractor UK contractoruk.com
The soon to be held staff Christmas party is not the only thing that end-users throw which unsettles independent, self-employed IT contractors, keen to keep…
- Teknion Contessa Task Chair teknion.com
- It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings martinfowler.com
Via tomtaylor.
- The Shifting Definition of Front-End Developer blog.salsitasoft.com
Angular and other big-iron web frameworks are not an affront to front-end devs. They are just the latest manifestion of a long-term trend: code moving from the server to the browser. Let's define "front-end" to mean the parts of the app relating to user interface, rather than those that happen to be running in the browser's JavaScript VM. If we assign tasks to our developers accordingly, we will see that the new world of single-page web apps is very much like the old one. Plus ça change...
- Saving a Project and a Company - Jacques Mattheij jacquesmattheij.com
Solid wash-up.
Coworking, shared & private offices in London
- Working Not Working workingnotworking.com
The Office Club facilitates hot desking for workers who cannot commit to being in the office all week. Just let us know when you need a desk and we’ll allocate one of our hot desks to you on a day-by-day basis.
- Burns Sheehan burnssheehan.co.uk
This is why you’ve been giving bad technical interviews all this time: bad interviews are easier to give. They require less thought and creativity and effort on your part. These techniques are tricky to define and tough to follow. But that’s what hiring is like. It’s really hard, and it always takes much longer than you hope it will. The rules are fuzzy, and there are no acid tests that can be applied.
- The UK is becoming the self-employment capital of Europe leftfootforward.org
- Crunch IR35 Calculator crunch.co.uk
The triangle of happiness is a simplification of the main factors that tend to drive most people in their jobs. Put simply, if you're not satisfied with at least 2 of the 3 points of the triangle, your overall job satisfaction is in real question.
- Product Management: priorities and people | Student finance digital studentfinancedigital.blog.gov.uk
So, what exactly is a Product Manager?
Treehouse is a fresh practical solution for parents with young children: A bright workspace for adults with a vibrant multi-activity indoor play centre for children - combined under the same roof.
After running a service that delivers new work opportunities to designers and developers , I’ve come to realize most of us do portfolios wrong. Your online…
- Unicorn Jobs | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions github.com
- Everything you need to know about Income Protection Insurance - Freelance Advisor freelanceadvisor.co.uk · Archived on
There's one view of psychology according to which everything we do to make ourselves miserable – every dysfunctional behaviour, from minor to destructive – begins as an approach that once worked well, often in childhood, then passed its sell-by date. We're not idiots who choose unhappiness; rather, we develop coping mechanisms that make sense at the time.
- How This Freelancer Hacked His Hourly Rate fastcolabs.com
- Freelance contract samples, plus what to include in yours! - Freelance Advisor freelanceadvisor.co.uk · Archived on
- Lifestyle Programming successfulsoftware.net
If you aren’t going to be satisfied with anything less than being a multi-millionaire living in a hollowed out volcano, then an all-or-nothing, VC-backed start-up crap shoot is probably your only option. And there are markets where you have very little chance of success without venture capital. But really, how much money do you need? Is money going to make you happy? How many meals can you eat in a day? How many cars can you drive?
- Tech Jobs: Design, Programming, Rails, Executive, and more. weworkremotely.com
- Scrum: Agile madness | www.jillesvangurp.com jillesvangurp.com
You can’t substitute experience with process and that is exactly what agile followers end up doing. Take away the experienced people and you have a lot of people executing the rituals of scrum, kanban, or whatever without really understanding what they are doing. The assumption that that will work at all is naive at best and actually rather delusional.
Via monospaced.
- This column will change your life: the truth about inefficiency theguardian.com
Inefficiency is subjective: what's experienced as inefficiency by me or you is perfectly efficient, actually, just so long as you're a phone company and your goal is making money. Voicemail thus has much in common with "dark patterns", a term coined by the tech consultant Harry Brignull, to refer to the sneaky ways in which websites "trick users into doing things they might not otherwise do, [such as] signing up for recurring bills". As with voicemail, these often look like incompetent design, but they're not. [...] What feels like tiresome inefficiency, born of sloppiness, really arises because it serves someone's interests.
- Hugs and Kisses medium.com
"Again, money raised its head: to confront the unavoidable truth that you require financial stability to do what you want to do. And that to whine about that being unfair is perhaps childish and irresponsible because if you’re serious about your art, then you should be, well, serious about creating the conditions in which you can create your art.
Via blech.
- Lanyrd: from idea to exit - the story of our startup blog.natbat.net