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The creative landscape is really going to shift over the next twelve months I reckon. I have a feeling we might see a return to single creative practitioners with a more cost effective set up. Small to middle sized players just wont not have the benefit of scale in either direction.
Its amazing how your basic monthly needs mutate beyond all recognition just by employing even a couple of members of staff.
A friend of mine set up a design business in 2002. Started off with just two of them. I think it was three years later when I caught up with him and he had a small team of full time people. That meant he had to have a big enough premises for two directors and (maybe) four designers. So suddenly he had a massive rent and business rates bill to pay, four salaries, overheads and costs, insurances, corporation tax, pension schemes etc etc and directors wages and dividends (if there was anything left to make it all worth their while).
I may have mis-remembered but I seem to recall he said his modest little company had to clear 18k a month just to stay in business.
When you consider how many people are out there hustling for the work, and how easy it would be for someone to work from home and undercut you hugely, its amazing anyone manages to remain in business along traditional lines.
Mind you, he's still in business as far as I know.
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