Easy to fire so they can be relied upon to toe the line. Outside the org chain so little risk of becoming a competitor to management. Additionally freelancer or

Easy to fire so they can be relied upon to toe the line. Outside the org chain so little risk of becoming a competitor to management. Additionally freelancer orgs are often a vector for mutual back scratching / kickbacks. I think FTEs are often promised security, a career with promotions, a work family etc. These are expected out of a tradition of norms. Belief in such promises can be exploited to extract more value for less. Management optimizing for self interest will exploit FTEs as much as they will allow and divert as much revenue to peer owned freelancers as the company will allow.