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> When you hire a contractor/freelancer you can pay for output, not time. This is not true, at least in my experience, and definitely in the Netherlands. You p

• ajb 2y ago
  There are two different types of contract. But it's hard for most companies to do 'pay for output' because they aren't capable of specifying the output. And contractors don't want to do it because then they are taking most of the risk.
• freefaler 2y ago
  That's why I said "may", not "will". I hire a lot of contractors and if we can't specify the work sufficiently then we don't hire them. Or hire on a fixed budget to get the correct deliverables specified (if possible). When you pay for "hours worked" the incentive is to "work more hours", not deliver the result. I've seen many employees spending their employers money for such "contracts", but they will not have done that with their own money. When the task is so hard to define/specify/design, it's not a good fit for contractor's work. BTW, the building industry has been working with contractors for ages and their practices are very efficient and the IT sector will learn from them sooner or later.