Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers

Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by blamazon on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:19PM (#28488309)

Blame the bean counters. What I see in FAANG today is that departments fill as many FTE roles as they can until they hit their headcount limit, and then they employ a bunch of contractors on top of that as they feel are needed on top of the approved head count.

This is allegedly why the NSA was employing Edward Snowden as a contractor.

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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by vajrabum on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:34PM (#28488985)

I think that's unlikely. I visited the CIA for a network equipment manufacturer in the late 90's and they had converted a significant portion of their IT employees to contractors. It's outsourcing to benefit the outsource contract companies. People were pretty bitter about it too. The military has got a ton of this sort of thing going on as well.

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