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As other people on the thread have mentioned, you can look at Microsoft to see what will happen. This same exact situation played out there: long-term contracto
by Analemma_ 8y ago
As other people on the thread have mentioned, you can look at Microsoft to see what will happen. This same exact situation played out there: long-term contractors demanded employee rights, went to court, and got them. So Microsoft immediately changed its policy to a) pretty much ban individual contractors who weren’t working through agencies (that skim way more off the top than they’re worth), and b) set a hard limit of 18 months, after which the contractor has to leave and can’t work for Microsoft again for a “cool-down period”. Which sucks for everyone: the contractors aren’t any better off than they were, and the FTEs now have to waste time training a new person every year and a half just when the outgoing one had become an expert who needed little supervision.