We want to make sure we're thoughtful about what skills we bring in-house, which skills we're bringing in with a contractor-contingent workforce and which skills we're outsourcing.
Based on answers to a 1995 survey, BLS figures that at most 11% of part-timers and 4% of independent contractors are contingent.
Most importantly, the "gig economy" or jobs held by independent contractors, or contingent workers or those in some form of alternative working arrangement are definitely growing.
The net effect has been an enormous increase – largely unmapped and unrecognised – in the use by the public sector of interim, contingent and contractor labour.
Americans there, with a large contingent of private contractors, are expected to take on many of the functions that are now the military's responsibility.
(Contingent workers include independent contractors; freelancers, who do occasional work for companies at a set fee; outside consultants; and temporary, part-time and seasonal employees).
Economists who study flexible work arrangements believe that the increase has been driven in large part by independent contractors like Mr. Sinclair and other contingent workers, struggling to cobble together whatever work they can find.
contingent, including forty-odd contractors supplied by DynCorp, a Virginia-based private military company, which has a number of large U.S. government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world.
What I'm doing is trying to keep a smaller in-house contingent and supplement it with contractors based on the ebbs and flows of how much business we have".
A government report in 2006 said that 31 percent of the American work force was independent or contingent, a category that encompasses contractors, temporary workers and the self-employed, among others.
Contractors are helpful precisely because of their contingent nature.
