Google's Cost of Doing Business Got Higher
Google has provided us with a template for how not to deal with a corporate problem, and how to make a bad situation infinitely worse. Google has an assortment of over 150,000 temporary and contract workers, who outnumber the company’s full-time work force.[i] The company generally pays the temps less, by between 12 and 50%, than its permanent employees. That’s fine in the US where such differential rates are legal, so long as they don’t run afoul of specific laws governing

