Is it a bad sign if companies can't hire and retain full time people? Why do companies have so much money for those contractors but pay full time people so little money?
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Around 2% or less in tech. Much larger in non-tech
How much larger in non tech, about 50% are contractors?
If you work on your own house, is that a good sign? If you hire someone to do the work, is that a bad sign? My opinion is that contractors should do jobs that don’t have a reasonable career path in your company. It may be a career path in the contractor’s company, or it could be a low-skill job that people should move out of once they get that experience, if they want a career of some sort.
So it would be a bad sign if the contractors are doing the application architecture and full time are doing grunt work?
Depends on whose contractors and whose full-time employees they are. The homeowner shouldn’t have employees, except if it’s a nanny or a butler 😎
Software firms should have FTEs doing product and engineering. If not, it is like a plumbing home services company hiring contractors to do plumbing work. Temp work while one hires is ok.
Some companies that not tech companies probably aren't desirable enough that they will be able to hire enough ftes.
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