Using contractors or consultants for your IT needs can be a good idea as it allows you to concentrate your company’s resources on your business.

You also don’t have to administer holiday and sick pay and collect tax for contractors, and employing a person as a contractor can be up to 30% cheaper than taking them on as a full-time employee.

But if you’re going down this route you need to understand exactly what a contractor is. Contractors are engaged to perform specific tasks or to produce certain results, and are usually paid on the completion of the tasks that they’ve been engaged for. They usually

The Do’s and Don’ts for IT Consulting Firms and Contractors

Your IT contracting business is starting to grow.  It’s still a bit quiet occasionally, but at other times you’re finding the workload a bit much for a single contractor to cope with. You don’t want to employ someone full-time, but someone part-time for specific tasks, depending on their expertise, may be useful.