Hybrid work is coming to big tech. Its contractors might not be so lucky
Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images In fits and starts, the US is reopening - in many cases to the chagrin of office workers who have settled into work-from-wherever setups they've had the past 16-ish months to perfect. And given the willingness of many of those same workers to quit rather than go back to full-time cubicle life, many companies have offered some form of hybrid" arrangement as a compromise.
It seems that benefit isn't being extended to all workers, though. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft were short on concrete answers as to which contingent workers - which comprise sizable, sometimes majority portions of their workforce, and perform functions from hospitality and security to content moderation and coding - if any would be allowed to work...