From Business Insider, Biz Carson writes about companies that are switching from using independent contractors to employees because it is a better business decision. She writes:
“many of the on-demand companies who have recently re-classified their independent contractors as employees — or who began doing business by only hiring so-called W2 employees — say blaming legal reasons is just a sideshow.
The real reason companies are switching is that it just makes a better business. “There’s a lot of noise around legal,” said Joe Du Bey, CEO and co-founder of Eden, an on-demand startup that sends out “wizards” to fix technology.
Eden is the latest startup to make the decision to transition Eden’s workers over from contractors to employees. It’s been a summer of change as Instacart, Shyp and Luxe all flipped their labor force to employees….”
Read the full story at Why startups switch from contractors to employees – Business Insider
