Maybe you need to be more specific about which workers you're talking about. Given a full time worker vs a contractor, I'm guessing the contractor has far less

Maybe you need to be more specific about which workers you're talking about. Given a full time worker vs a contractor, I'm guessing the contractor has far less knowledge of the system as a whole, and ripe for being replaced. Then with freed up funds, maybe they hire more internal developers. It could be more of a reshuffling than anything else.