You know all the fantastic, off the chart benefits that all Google employees get? It encourages outsourcing less skilled / lower ranking roles to vendor compani

You know all the fantastic, off the chart benefits that all Google employees get? It encourages outsourcing less skilled / lower ranking roles to vendor companies. Jobs like customer support, manual QA, facilities, etc. end up being vendors instead of direct employees. This doesn't mean they aren't FTEs of the vendor company. They can be permanent employees with benefits. They just aren't full time employees of Google. Of course Google is going to have some temp and limited term contractors, but this category isn't just that. Hence why the article refers to "TVC": temp, vendor, and contractor.