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> The power balance is so skewed in the direction of the employee in the software industry Maybe for the folks at the very top, the Rockstars of yore. Bloomber
by purity_resigns 8y ago
> The power balance is so skewed in the direction of the employee in the software industry
Maybe for the folks at the very top, the Rockstars of yore. Bloomberg ran this yesterday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-black-site-gives-contractors-few-perks-little-security https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-11/apple-bla...
At least in Germany, there are quite a few EU local body shops pushing the power balance in employers' favor.
- thedufer 8y agoI did not get the feeling that the Bloomberg piece was about devs. Did I miss something? They specifically called out Apple Maps, which requires a lot of data cleaning.
- purity_resigns 8y agoIn the US, maybe contractor/body shops are rarer around dev work? Mostly around the Department of Defense. My point was that employers' ability to pull in lots of short term employees weakens their negotiating power. At least in Germany.
- singhrac 8y agoI think the point of the parent comment is that we're discussing software engineers, who certainly have a different negotiating power than the (presumably nonengineering) contractors mentioned in the article.