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Every company hires contractors for different services. The company that cleans your offices at night is almost certainly a contractor, for example. If your off
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Every company hires contractors for different services. The company that cleans your offices at night is almost certainly a contractor, for example. If your office needs to be repainted, your company doesn’t hire a painter full-time and manage them directly. They enter into a contract with a painting company. If they need to expand their building, they contract with a construction company to do the work and the construction company hires people to do the construction work. Nobody would mistake the construction workers for employees of your company because the construction contracting model is commonly understood, unlike the data center model.
Working on a company’s contracted projects doesn’t make someone an employee of that company. It seems well-understood in common situations like cleaning or construction but people seem to struggle to understand how it works when it comes to unfamiliar topics like data centers.
The situation in this article is no different. The company they’re complaining about isn’t actually Google, despite how much the article tries to be about big tech:
> But the company that recruited McNally was not Google; it was Modis Engineering,
- jdavis703 5y ago> The company that cleans your offices at night is almost certainly a contractor, for example. In the good old days janitors used to be employees. Heck, even when I worked for the government the janitors were employees (but I believe even the janitors needed a security clearance.)
- harimau777 5y agoA company is still morally responsible if they hire from a contracting firm that mistreats their employees. I could be wrong, but I doubt that most janitorial contracting firms have a policy of firing people after two years and refusing to re-hire them for a set amount of time. However, if they do then that would be immoral for them to.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago> have a policy of firing people after two years and refusing to re-hire them for a set amount of time. However, if they do then that would be immoral for them to. The truth is that no contracting company wants to lost people after two years. Why would any company voluntarily let go of their most experienced workers and go through all the trouble of hiring and training new ones? Who would actually want to perform that cycle over and over again for no possible benefit? They’re not doing this to be evil. They’re doing this to comply with poorly thought out regulations. Blame the regulators for coming up with these arbitrary laws. The contracting companies would definitely be retaining their most experienced contractors if they could.
- harimau777 5y agoWhat regulations are you referring to?