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by Oberbaumbrucke 2901 days ago
But that's exactly the definition of an employee vs a contractor. Your last statement is a contradiction of terms.
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Right, sorry if I wasn't clear - what I was saying was "there's a lot of oil and gas companies on this list. A lot of the revenue for these companies aren't actually generated by employees, but rather by contractors, and I wonder how much this is skewing the metric of 'revenue per employee'"