“The More Remote, The More Transactional:” Income Is Gonna Drop

The “Uberization” of work things.

Here’s a new-ish article from Business Insider saying what most logical people have been expecting for 39 months now: companies are shifting away from conventional full-time employment and into more part-time and contractor deals. This actually makes sense, seeing as how as far back as 2010, former U.S. Generals were writing books arguing for a “team of teams” model whereby some people come together for six weeks, drill a few targets, and then disperse.

In the war over remote work, companies are turning full-time jobs into low-paying gigs

It makes more sense for the company too: pension plans and health benefits and various are expensive. Company executives no likey the expensive stuff. They’d rather that go into their fourth bedroom that their wife has been nagging ’em about for a year. And in that article, you have that attitude reflected in this quote:

“If somebody’s coming into your site five days a week, week in, week out, it feels like they’re your employee,” says Bloom. “You…