Timeline for Is it common business practice to consider constructive break times as billable for consultants?
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 2:26 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | This answer is just bad. Spending 30 minutes thinking about the code that you shouldn't write because it would be much better done a different way is much more productive than spending 3 hours writing code that should not have been written. | |
| Sep 15, 2017 at 14:57 | comment | added | corsiKa | @ArnoldWiersma I'm talking about a one-stop-shop outsourcing company with thousands of contractors. They have a well established business model. If someone needed twenty Arnolds to make their whole IT organization run, they would each managed individually, that would add overhead. An Arnold for this app, two Arnolds for the ERP, two more for mobile. All with different companies and contractors, etc. At Big Guy Outsourcing, Inc., they "streamline" it so they can capture it all under one bill for "cost savings" but now you're also locked in for ever. Then they start screwing you once locked in. | |
| Sep 15, 2017 at 13:14 | comment | added | Arnold Wiersma | @corsiKa As a contractor myself my goal is not to get payed to do nothing. My goal is to deliver quality work so I will get hired again a few years down the line and my clients will recommend me to their network. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 15:28 | comment | added | corsiKa | And I'm not being cynical - but with an employee you both want whats best for the same business. With contractors you want what's best for your business and they want what's best for their business. Naturally, what's best is you pay nothing and get everything. Best for them is they get paid everything and do nothing. Both parties acting in the best interest of their company will be working toward these conflicting goals and meeting somewhere in the middle. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | corsiKa | I am finding it very hard to believe that the Utopian answers are getting dozens and hundreds of votes while this practical answer has only a handful. If you've ever worked with an outsourced IT vendor of any kind, you know their number one goal is to wrack up billable hours and their number two goal is to lock you in to using their services forever. You have to watch the contracts like a hawk - they can be incredibly predatory and wasteful. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 1:14 | comment | added | Rob P. | As a consultant/contractor - this is the right answer. It's all about the contract. Too many people here are applying this question to life as an employee or possibly imagining a fixed-bid project. None of the contracts I've been involved with on a time and materials project would allow me to bill for time spent on a walk, no matter how productive it might have been. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 19:57 | comment | added | Wayne | Good answer, but I think we need to define "stuck". If it means totally flustered and needs to get away, that would be a problem if it happened on a regular basis. If it instead means, "this change will be tricky and I need to think through and choose between three different options", the fact that the person happens to be walking while thinking shouldn't matter. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 19:34 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2017 at 14:22 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |