Good point. Although, I tend to think the timespan of contracts, whether employment or temporary, are of little moment if the employer were to fall on hard time

Good point. Although, I tend to think the timespan of contracts, whether employment or temporary, are of little moment if the employer were to fall on hard times. If they don't have the cash, termination is going to happen either way. What might work is automated Just-in-Time contracting, with minimal agency cost and lead-times, and with automation providing the stability of full-time employment. LinkedIn 2.0 essentially (fyi: this doesn't exist, I just made it up)