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    Company Laptop or Personal Laptop...

    SO i have been given the right to work from home.

    However, now i am in a predicament. Maanger wants me to use team laptop, i want to use my own laptop...for various reasons....

    if im using my own equipment, working from my own premises, im liking the IR35 status thing.

    what u reckon?

    #2
    Thought you only needed a phone ??
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      #3
      Originally posted by Ruprect
      Thought you only needed a phone ??
      amazing how change happens so quickly.

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        #4
        I use the client's laptop from my home office as that is the only way I can access shared folders and emails, and they have commercial reasons for wanting documentation kept on their secured equipment etc. I've been advised it has no bearing on IR35.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Old Greg
          I use the client's laptop from my home office as that is the only way I can access shared folders and emails, and they have commercial reasons for wanting documentation kept on their secured equipment etc. I've been advised it has no bearing on IR35.

          ok good to know. i must admit the amount of IT security and scanning they want to do on my business laptop is unnerving.

          plus the financial protection i have to sign as well.

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            #6
            How will you connect to their network?

            If the company has a policy that you cannot put your own equipment on their network (even via a VPN), then you have no choice in the matter. This should not impact the IR35 status of the contract.

            Very few companies will let you put your equipment on their network, so their idea of using their kit is pretty much the industry norm. I've only worked for one client who let me use my equipment, and even then it needed to go through a series of checks before I could plug it in.
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              #7
              Originally posted by el duder
              ok good to know. i must admit the amount of IT security and scanning they want to do on my business laptop is unnerving.

              plus the financial protection i have to sign as well.
              If you're worried about IR34, drop them an email asking whether they need you to use their laptop for reasons of security, then keep that email as evidence, but I wouldn't worry, personally (and I've been doing this for 4 whole months now so I must be right).

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                #8
                Originally posted by Old Greg
                If you're worried about IR34, drop them an email asking whether they need you to use their laptop for reasons of security, then keep that email as evidence, but I wouldn't worry, personally (and I've been doing this for 4 whole months now so I must be right).

                they have said i can use my own laptop, however it is to undergo vigoros testing and security.

                i also have to sign financial liability forms if any viruses, or impact to the company is passed on from my own laptop.

                i best start removing all my porn from it ASAP eh?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by el duder
                  i best start removing all my porn from it ASAP eh?
                  Got a couple of days spare have you?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Old Greg
                    I use the client's laptop from my home office as that is the only way I can access shared folders and emails, and they have commercial reasons for wanting documentation kept on their secured equipment etc. I've been advised it has no bearing on IR35.
                    I use my own equipment working at home, but same situation: I'm told if I want VPN access I'd need to use their equipment. I make do without, though it's a bit of a pain at times and I have to plan what I can do where.

                    I don't see it affects IR35 as long as there's a justification (i.e. security).
                    Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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