QuoteEmployers want to get out from under the obligations they owe their workforce. Companies want bodies to do the work, but they increasingly don't want those bodies to be employees.

Disposable workers are everywhere nowadays. The concierge who greets me when I leave my condo in the morning works for a contracting company, not the building. When I do an interview at a downtown office building, that building is being cleaned by contractors. The person indexing my new book is a freelancer.