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That phrase is used in every English speaking country I’ve been to. It basically means contractors.
by AmericanChopper 3y ago
That phrase is used in every English speaking country I’ve been to. It basically means contractors.
- teruakohatu 3y agoI am a kiwi and I have never heard the term before. So at least one English speaking country doesn’t use it.
- rwmj 3y agoIt'd be true if he'd never left America.
- AmericanChopper 3y agoHilariously, I have worked as a contingent worker in New Zealand.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoAt least one Australian academic uses it when talking about workers in New Zealand: https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Strategies-for-managing-contingent-knowledge-workers/991012821066302368 https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/S... > Strategies for managing contingent knowledge workers in New Zealand And this New Zealand company uses it on page 2 of this presentation (after previously using the terms "‘independent earners’, can be contractors, sole traders, freelancers, gig workers and independent consultants"): https://hnry.co.nz/uploads/The%20Future%20of%20Independent%20Earning%20-%20Dynamic%20Resourcing,%20Portfolio%20Careers%20and%20Individual%20Wellbeing%20(1).pdf https://hnry.co.nz/uploads/The%20Future%20of%20Independent%2... > Dynamic resourcing, the method of hiring a mix of permanent and contingent workers to respond to demand, is becoming more common in organisations. So yes, NZ uses it too, just as a more wonky term.
- teruakohatu 3y ago> At least one Australian academic uses it when talking about workers in New Zealand: https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/S https://researchportal.scu.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/S... NZ is not Australia, anymore than Mexico is the USA.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoYes, thus I gathered more directly supporting evidence. You should be comparing NZ:AU::CA:US, not MX:US. MX:US::PH:AU.
- mvdtnz 3y agoI am a kiwi. We don't use it. I have literally never heard the term in my life.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoIt's a technical term. Most people don't use it even in the US. But there are at least some (as indicated in my second link) who do use it in Kiwiland.
- mvdtnz 3y agoWhich is exactly my point. Authors should define such technical/unusual language.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoDid you know beforehand what the adjective "contingent" meant? If you did, then that's enough to understand the gist of what was said (as the generally meaning of the technical term is basically the same as what the adjective + noun indicate). If you didn't, then that's what a dictionary is for. And again, US publisher of US information, where the term has entered into the common parlance a bit more thanks to such use by journalists over the past almost 40 years (with a pronounced peak in the late 90s): https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22contingent+worker%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22contingent+...
- AmericanChopper 3y agoI worked as a contractor in NZ for several years, and everybody I worked for there classified me as part of their “contingent workforce”. This isn’t an example of localised language. It’s just management jargon.
- rsynnott 3y agoYeah, inclined to agree. The _concept_ largely exists everywhere (though is more restricted in many countries than in the US; a lot of US 'contingent' workers would likely be deemed to be employees with job security in many countries), but the term is largely only used in the US.
- namdnay 3y agoIt's definitely not british english, they would be called freelancers or contractors
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoThat's typically what freelancers and contractors are called in the US as well. "Contingent worker" is a more formal term and covers a few other groups of workers as well. The Cambridge dictionary has it: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/contingent-worker https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/continge...