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Some people here may have a tech-heavy, skewed perspective of what "contracting" is, these days. A lot of "contractors" are people working for a middleman comp
by pasbesoin 8y ago
Some people here may have a tech-heavy, skewed perspective of what "contracting" is, these days.
A lot of "contractors" are people working for a middleman company. Whatever Google's reimbursement rate, the actual workers -- these "contractors" -- are receiving at best half of that. The rest goes to the middleman.
If you work "full time", you're supposed to be eligible for benefits from the contracting company. But, there are lots of ways -- legal, and gray, and illegal but "Whatchya gonna do about it?" -- around this.
Years ago, I did temp work for a while. And, no matter how good the temp worker, many contracting firms had hard and fast, company-wide rules about the limitations on such temp workers. Why? To avoid any condition under which they might be judged "full time" or otherwise eligible for any benefits or workers' rights.
High end contractors can do quite well and be quite happy. Across industry, including the "tech" industry, a lot of other contractors get all the work with much less of the benefits.
Who cleans your floor? Who guards the desk? (IIRC, Google brought the latter back "in-house" some years ago, after realizing that maybe loyalty is an important part of security.) Who waters the plants?
Those people deserve to have lives, too. Sick days, the ability to take care of their kids. Etc.
I'll add that while and where I've been a full-time employee, I've taken the time to get to know many of these people. And it makes for a much more pleasant working experience.
Harvard MBA grads who are always busy separating "core" function from everything else (often conveniently dumped into "cost centers"), are, I believe, doing a lot more destruction than many people realize. Not just to people, but to the businesses that they warp into heartless "factories". Tiered systems, the "blessed" and the "rest". Never mind that the place will fall down without that "rest".