Whilst you might not have been particularly good at science during your school days, if you’re an umbrella company worker you’re going to learn to love it soon.
That’s because there are new opportunities on the horizon for umbrella company contractors thanks to key investments being made in the science industry in the UK. Treasury plans to commit massive amounts of cash to science infrastructure in the coming years are beginning to shape up, and while there’s only £600 million being devoted to the project at the moment, a massive £1.1 billion is set to be flooded into British science pursuits by the 2015-2016 financial year – and after that, the funding will actually keep up with the level of inflation for the foreseeable future!
This is some serious good news for anyone who works as an umbrella contractor, and not just those who put on a white lab coat every morning on their way to the particle accelerator – you don’t need an advanced degree in astrophysics to work in the construction industry, after all. In fact, none of these incredible new science facilities are going to get built without skilled and experienced workers that know more about swinging a hammer than they do about splitting atoms; let’s watch one of those eggheads try to put up a garden shed, much less a massive new state-of-the-art science facility!
Of course, there’s more than just construction personnel that are going to be needed in droves – it’s a safe bet that these scientists are going to need IT specialists in order to make sure they can all check their e-mails whilst at work, and you’re not going to find too many researchers doing things like answering phones or organising payroll down in Human Resources. In fact, these scientists are pretty much only good for one thing – running experiments – and for the most part they’d be lost without someone to remind them to tie their shoes or put their trousers on before leaving the house!
It’s a bit ironic, isn’t it? Those scientific blokes need us just as much as we need them, though we probably didn’t run in the same circles during primary school. Despite that, we can help build a brighter future for the UK – and hopefully all this will help pull our economy out of these doldrums that we’ve been languishing in for far, far too long.
