Those from the eu are moving back to the eu, and those with skills in demand that hold british citizenship only and cant leave find remote work in the us or the eu. The uk contract market which used to be the ultimate goal for highly skilled engineers is getting slaughtered by silly regulation that pushes work either to outsourcing companies or, surprise surprise, to remote workers from the eu.
For instance, when i speak with folks from east europe they tell me there are remote jobs available from … the uk (somehow remote within uk is not ok, remote outside is). With a pay gap of roughly 20-30% that means that due to the cost of living and taxes being lower their pay is significantly higher than pay within the uk. The reasons companies outsource or externalise are because hiring contract workers is a tax nightmare (have to prove they are not disguised employees, otherwise rates would be much higher since the worker will have to pay as much tax as an employee..although non employee taxation is also pretty high, because eat the “rich”).
Then you have companies that hire locally in a crappy hybrid setup. As if anyone with skills in demand is going to uproot their family or want to live in expensive london only to work on crappy agiled to death products, where the only challenges are getting the process to work instead of solving actual problems.
It feels as if this country is making one wrong choice after the other. Brexit was one of them but since then there are plenty more.
I do believe that things can turn around, and as such, I will call out what i think damages progress any time i see it.
Hybrid or onsite that’s forcing people to return to an overcrowded over expensive city such as london is one of them. Get real and grow up, the world has moved on from wanting to piss their money away on commutes and rents, and the tech for remote is already here.
For instance, when i speak with folks from east europe they tell me there are remote jobs available from … the uk (somehow remote within uk is not ok, remote outside is). With a pay gap of roughly 20-30% that means that due to the cost of living and taxes being lower their pay is significantly higher than pay within the uk. The reasons companies outsource or externalise are because hiring contract workers is a tax nightmare (have to prove they are not disguised employees, otherwise rates would be much higher since the worker will have to pay as much tax as an employee..although non employee taxation is also pretty high, because eat the “rich”).
Then you have companies that hire locally in a crappy hybrid setup. As if anyone with skills in demand is going to uproot their family or want to live in expensive london only to work on crappy agiled to death products, where the only challenges are getting the process to work instead of solving actual problems.
It feels as if this country is making one wrong choice after the other. Brexit was one of them but since then there are plenty more.
I do believe that things can turn around, and as such, I will call out what i think damages progress any time i see it.
Hybrid or onsite that’s forcing people to return to an overcrowded over expensive city such as london is one of them. Get real and grow up, the world has moved on from wanting to piss their money away on commutes and rents, and the tech for remote is already here.