It don't want to sound insensitive, but same employer or not, being a contractor is different. For starters, your career is less subject to office politics. Or you feel far less pressure to take work home. Don't like to gig, look for something. You're hired to do a job. Do it. No more. No less. There is for some, comfort in that. The one surprise from the article is that the gross pay is the same. Typically, contract…
Contractors are well paid (per day) when they are in a "short term consulting role" for a company that doesn't need a permanent position. When the role is "a body for the shop when the workload is high enough", the contractor is the least valued class in the team, paid less with less benefits, and first to cut when load or funding drops.
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#11Sadly, I've been seeing the opposite. My large company keeps hiring groups of contractors out of India. They are low-quality and low-paid and are there for minor feature conversions. However, we see the company keeping them over strong employees every round of layoffs. The levels of technical debt someone will have to deal with in the future is absurd.