How tech giants are increasingly using contract workers instead of direct staff, as Google's contract workers outnumbered direct employees for the first time
- This year at Google, contract workers outnumbered direct employees for the first time in the company's 20-year history. Tweets: @counternotions and @cnbc Tweets: Kontra / @counternotions : “contract workers outnumbered direct employees for the first time in [Google's] 20-yr history” “Some 57.3M Americans, 36% of the workforce, are now freelancing” “Workers with jobs in higher wages are more likely to have their services contracted out"http://www.cnbc.com/... @cnbc : This year at Google, contract workers outnumbered direct employees for the first time in the company's 20-year history. This is how Silicon Valley uses a shadow workforce of contract employees to drive profits. http://www.cnbc.com/...