Switching from skilled worker to scale up visa

Hi guys,

I am thinking to switch from a skilled worker visa (Tier 2 general) to the new visa called (scale up visa) without changing my employer, occupation, or even salary as all of them are eligible for the scale up visa. I've been working with the same employer for three and a half years so far and my question is does my work history count toward the 6 months of sponsership in the scale up visa or do I need to start counting these 6 months from the date of getting the scale up visa? Thanks

Sorry if I posted it in the wrong place but I cannot see a section for the scale up visa.

Regards,
Mo

this route has been opened less than 6 months ago, doubt anyone has proper experience on that
also I couldn't find any information about combining your visas with this, so if you switch, you (most likely) start your route to ILR anew.

Thanks for your reply and yes I agree with you it is a fairly new visa as it got released on the 22nd of August this year and people might need more time to understand it properly. But it should not affect my current route toward the ILR as it is mentioned on the UK Gov website:

If you’ve had more than one visa
In the 5 years you’ve lived in the UK, you can include time you’ve had on any combination of the following visas:

• any Tier 1 visa - except Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur)
  Skilled Worker or Tier 2 (General)
  Scale-up Worker
  T2 Minister of Religion or Tier 2 (Minister of Religion)
  International Sportsperson, T2 Sportsperson or Tier 2 (Sportsperson)
  Innovator
  Global Talent
  Representative of an Overseas Business

yep, my mistake there about nit being able to combine visas, apologies.
but yea, the main question you'd have to ask UKVI or find out yourself, it hasn't even been 6 months since the visa was out, so I wouldn't expect any data to be available