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I worked at Ford as a contractor back in the 80's. They regularly hired contractors, usually from India on a green card, through body shops. The body shop could be making $30/hr while the contractor was getting a pittance in exchange for the green card. And because the body shop was sponsoring their green card, the "employee" couldn't switch to another company. Pretty horrible.

Instead of going through a body shop, which I refused to do, Ford just required that I was incorporated. This completely lets them off the hook on the contractor vs employee question. Did the same thing with IBM.

Forming an LLC is something that at least here in Indiana can be done in a few days by filling out a form online with the state and getting a tax id with the IRS. This allows you (actually, your LLC) to be directly hired at any company without them taking any risk of you being classified as an employee.