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Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by CydeWeys on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:55AM (#20030724)
They aren't. The majority of TVCs at Google are call center workers, cafe staff, janitors, security guards, receptionists, etc. They work for companies like Adecco, Restaurant Associates, and various other staffing firms.

These articles always get it wrong by completely failing to distinguish who exactly the TVCs are. They'll interview a less common white collar contractor but then use numbers for total contractors. A decisive majority of the actual white collar workers are FTEs.

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Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by JeremyBanks on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:58AM (#20030761)
Heh. While I was at Google I was surprised to gradually realized how many the technical teams we worked with were actually non-employee contractor teams. It might vary by division.
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Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by CydeWeys on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:25AM (#20031064)
Can you give more information, if you can?

The only contractors I work with, and not too closely at that, are the tier one support people for our product in the Philippines. And then there's some web developers, designers, and project managers who work for a web design firm, but their job seems pretty cushy so I wouldn't include them in this conversation.

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