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A contract, probably.

• Analemma_ 8y ago
  Ah, but as these companies are always so quick to remind us, their workers are contractors, not employees. Which here reveals itself as a double-edged sword: it lets you save lots of money on those pesky benefits and workers' rights, but it means you have no ability to prevent them from cutting you out and getting a better deal by going directly to the customer. As someone who loathes the startup tendency to misclassify employees in order to shift costs onto them, I do savor the schadenfreude when it backfires like this.