Without long term, dedicated employees, your company cannot build a technical personality and its associated value.
I have been both a contractor and a full-timer. The work I did as a contractor was simple and task oriented. Whenever I wanted to innovate or improve the process I was ignored or rejected. Now, as an employee at the same company doing the full-time version of the same job I have latitude to do what I need to do to help the project and the company succeed.
Looking back on my contractor days and also at contractors now in my group, I can easily say that for positions that the group clearly needs creativity, dedication and innovation, it should choose a full-time employee - and reward them well. As a full-time I have taken on nearly the same task with a ton more energy and enthusiasm than I was even allowed to before and am therefore helping out even more!
If you need people on to help maintain a project for a definite period of time go with contractors. If you need intelligent people you want to add value to the entire company with, choose full-time employees.
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Without long term, dedicated employees, your company cannot build a technical personality and its associated value.
I have been both a contractor and a full-timer. The work I did as a contractor was simple and task oriented. Whenever I wanted to innovate or improve the process I was ignored or rejected. Now, as an employee at the same company doing the full-time version of the same job I have latitude to do what I need to do to help the project and the company succeed.
Looking back on my contractor days and also at contractors now in my group, I can easily say that for positions that the group clearly needs creativity, dedication and innovation, it should choose a full-time employee - and reward them well. As a full-time I have taken on nearly the same task with a ton more energy and enthusiasm than I was even allowed to before and am therefore helping out even more!
If you need people on to help maintain a project for a definite period of time go with contractors. If you need intelligent people you want to add value to the entire company with, choose full-time employees.
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