If you`re talking about contract workers that come from an agency or are independent , it`s pretty obvious to me why . With all costs for employees either rising rapidly or going to shortly ( fringes , medical etc ) , serious issues with being able to terminate an employee because of unions , govt. rules or whatever ... it only makes sense to not have your own employees .... just use contract workers that don`t have those issues .
Hope you can follow this as the pain meds are finally starting to kick in

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