https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-has-more-temp-and-contract-workers-than-actual-employees-but-they-have-far-fewer-rights-2019-05-30 A 50% contractor percentage seems ridiculously high to me. I'd imagine there is a lot of overhead involved with maintaining such a massive 3rd party vendor workforce. Unlike Uber where the contractors do only 1 job (drivers) google contractors are spread out across nearly all job functions (SDE, SDET, Marketing, recruiting, project management, etc etc) and are deeply integrated within all aspects of the firm. Over half the company are now third party contractors! Wouldn't it be more efficient to hire these people as full time instead? The contracting companies (Infosys, HCL, etc) are taking a 20% cut so surely Google could pay people their current rate and tack on benefits w/ the 20% that would have gone to the contracting company. But then, of course, the hiring bar would be significantly lowered because it is massively easier to join as a contractor. They could perhaps introduce lower tiered job titles? Or just live with a lower bar. I'm guessing the prime motivation for the high contractor % is to preserve the Google prestige while putting bodies in cubicles to keep the lights on. Now with reports of the Pittsburgh office unionizing, are they reaching the limits of this strategy?
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Are there that many Infosys HCL on the first place?
At google, pretty much all of the staff doing 1) kitchen staff 2) campus security 3) tech support 4) cleaning staff 5) gym staff 6) content curation / moderation filtering are contractors. I read Facebook has like 20k people working on just content moderation. It’s not surprising google also has 10s of thousands of people also as contractors.
Google has software engineers as contractors
Nearly all SWEs are FTEs. Contractors are a single digit percentage of them. The NYT article (which I assume you read) really blows this % out of proportion by conflating non-eng staff with eng staff.
Cheap labor is sustainable
Who are the biggest contractor companies for Google? WITCH?
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