Probabilities. If you are a contractor you'll be let go much easier than if you are an employee. I used to work at a big corp (pretty nice one, BTW) and we've a

Probabilities. If you are a contractor you'll be let go much easier than if you are an employee. I used to work at a big corp (pretty nice one, BTW) and we've always had a few contractors to smooth out the fluctuations in the work demand/projects. Hiring, getting a headcount was hard. Exactly because employees were harder to let go and a bigger investment. We were 5-6 on our team over 6 years and had 4 contractors on and off on the side during that time. And it was as simple as: sorry guys, we won't need your service for the next 6 months, because this and that. (Our work was always planned ahead for 6 months, decision made 2x a year.)