{"id":396,"date":"2007-01-24T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000396"},"modified":"2007-01-24T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T17:09:31","slug":"is-the-tech-contractor-to-salaried-employee-ratio-a-sign-of-the-tech-business-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/396","title":{"rendered":"Is the tech contractor to salaried employee ratio a sign of the tech business cycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/friends_on_the.html\">Nat Torkington seems to think so<\/a>: &#8220;&#8230;when the clever contractors head for salaried positions then bad times are coming.&#8221;  (The last paragraph is cut off due to an HTML error, but basically asks if a shortage of engineering talent affects this indicator in one way or another.)<\/p>\n<p>It is a complicated problem because there are a lot of other factors influencing whether being a contractor or an employee is a better fit for a person&#8217;s situation: need for income stability, contacts in the industry, demand for a given skill set, even preference for new situations.  Even so, it&#8217;d be interesting to look back and see what the ratio was over the last, say, 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>I took a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/\">BLS web site<\/a>, but couldn&#8217;t find any reports delineating contract employees and salaried employees.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/24\/interesting_tec.html\">Infectious Greed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]contracting, business cycle indicators[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat Torkington seems to think so: &#8220;&#8230;when the clever contractors head for salaried positions then bad times are coming.&#8221; (The last paragraph is cut off due to an HTML error, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}