Being a contractor there's a certain amount of freedom that you get from a contract. You don't have to play the idiotic performance eval games, eg. I was a co

Being a contractor there's a certain amount of freedom that you get from a contract. You don't have to play the idiotic performance eval games, eg. I was a contractor in a company that laid off 10% of the workforce, and strangely remained on contract. I talked with my manager about why, and it turned out that a layoff was an excuse to fire FTEs without going through the firing process.