A big breakthrough can be in finding ways to use contractors instead of employees, or in other words allowing people to contribute when they want rather than be

A big breakthrough can be in finding ways to use contractors instead of employees, or in other words allowing people to contribute when they want rather than being tied in a full-time employment contract. Obviously there are big, possibly insurmountable, obstacles related to the cost of onboarding/learning bespoke tech stacks, the need to preserve trade secrets and serial dependencies that require work to be performed quickly.