{"id":11754,"date":"2023-05-11T09:13:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=11754"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:13:28","slug":"consultant-vs-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/consultant-vs-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultant vs. Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casper, Phillips & Associates (CP&A)<\/a>, based in Tacoma, USA, has seen a rise in demand for its engineering design services, leading to the conclusion that companies have decided that it is better to hire a consultant rather than taking on an employee, and is looking further at the benefits of this.<\/p>\n

According to Richard Phillips, mechanical engineer at CP&A<\/a>, the advantages to companies outsourcing work reduces the cost of a salaried employee and associated taxes and health care with that as well as overhead costs of hiring an office space and computers. It could also solve the current problem of labor shortages in finding someone who has the right skills and experience and staff training.<\/p>\n

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Ship-to-shore container cranes equipped with CP&A-designed base anti seismic isolation system (BASIS).<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to work for our clients as their employees. Therefore, all our engagements are closed-ended. We determine how many program days are required to do a project, and charge for them, and only them. On successful completion of a project many clients then ask us to help with other projects, continuing the relationship. But, when the final program day comes, we move on to the next project,\u201d said Phillips.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur primary goal is to give our clients a competitive advantage over the competition. We are essentially a team that can be quickly hired and laid off without any onboarding costs or severance packages. If I were an employee, I\u2019d strive for the opposite: permanence and dependency.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur clients pay nothing into a 401k [profit-sharing plan that\u00a0allows employees to contribute a portion of their wages to individual accounts] on our behalf, and because we are outside vendors, the typical employee taxes and benefits don\u2019t apply. We have our own computers, software, office space, etc. While we may charge multiples of what typical employees are paid, we can be more cost effective, because we don\u2019t have any idle time. In other words, our work is 100% put towards production. We don\u2019t bill for typical overhead costs such as estimating, writing proposals, and other non-billable tasks that employees need to perform.<\/p>\n

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Assembly of machinery house on gantry for the 300t Whirley Crane. Structural design by CP&A, built by NOV AmClyde.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAnother competitive advantage is the fact that we are outside experts. Our clients don\u2019t currently have our capabilities, ideas, experience, or capacity to innovate. And we can be objective and work only at the margins of company politics. We\u2019re not there to fit in, but to help them to stand out.\u201d<\/p>\n