This is correct. The company I used to work for hires a lot of contractors and would furlough them as needed. They also hired about 200 contractors to get a big

This is correct. The company I used to work for hires a lot of contractors and would furlough them as needed. They also hired about 200 contractors to get a big cloud based project done and they were all let go at the beginning of the pandemic. Later in the pandemic they started layoffs and only then did the news outlets pick up on it.