- Synchronous vs asynchronous communication -- if we're all full-timers and you're not then you're hard to communicate with - Security and access -- I know and

- Synchronous vs asynchronous communication -- if we're all full-timers and you're not then you're hard to communicate with - Security and access -- I know and trust my full-timers, be they contractors or direct hires. They get to see my codebase, have access to my servers, and get insights as to what my roadmaps are because they own them. If we already knew you, like you were a full-timer who scaled back hours for a while, that might be a different story, but I'm not going to give some rando 20-hour-a-week person access to things. - IT contracting firms / headhunters already do much of this. - Hiring is a pain. Why interview for 2 positions when I can just hire one person? Note: I'm in Canada so some of the healthcare and overhead-related questions are different from the US.