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It doesn't really sound like she took on Google, but I guess "A woman who took on Modis and won" is a less engaging headline.
by gundmc 6y ago
It doesn't really sound like she took on Google, but I guess "A woman who took on Modis and won" is a less engaging headline.
- wyck 6y agoYou're still accountable to the subcontractors you hire.
- SpeakForMyself 6y agoAgree. What a clickbait. I thought BBC is better than this.
- m-ee 6y agoThat undersells Googles use of these staffing firms. Years ago I interviewed for an engineering job with the self driving car team at the newly built Google X office. At the end of the interview the manager informed me that if I were brought on I would technically be employed by a staffing firm (I think Adecco). Apparently everyone on the team had to start this way and people were moved to full time on a set schedule as slots opened up. My point is you can't assume contractors at Google are independent service providers that happen to be working on site like when you call a plumber to your house. They can and do use this arrangement to keep labor costs low even when employees are working on the company's core business. Before it was Waymo I don't think anyone would have called it the Adecco self driving car project.
- sjg007 6y agoYeah Adecco is used by every major software company. There was a big lawsuit though saying that you could only be contractors for 2 years if they were doing the same job as regular employees.