Voices from the Valley by Ben Tarnoff

Author:Ben Tarnoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

You mentioned that you first encountered TVCs when working on Google Books. As the company began to change and become more corporate, did you notice more and more contractors around?

I can’t think of a specific moment where there was a sudden influx. But percentage-wise, more and more of Google became temporary workers. It’s now a majority—Google employs more TVCs than full-time employees.5 It was probably 10 or 20 percent when I started.

At first, the introduction of TVCs seemed justified. Google is not in the business of hiring people to do everything. It doesn’t have the time. So having some third party manage that seemed like it made sense. But over time, Google has gone from, “There’s this special project that needs a few hundred people who have skill sets that no Googler currently has,” to taking full-time positions and turning them into temporary or contract positions.

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