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There seems to be 2 sides to this; someone always says don't hire contractors. Another person says yes hire contractors.

If you can hire an employee for less than you are paying for an contractor (include your HR time, payroll, taxes, other paperwork) there should be some semblance of a balance.

If you hire a Consultant who doesn't care about you succeeding; then he is selling his future short. Any good employee or Consultant will be absolutely willing to do his part to see you succeed; as that leads to him succeeding.

There are bad employee's as well as bad consultants; let's not try and make it black and white.