Recently, I shed light on the often overlooked disparity in compensation between full-time employees and contractors within remote-first tech companies. Today, I aim to underscore the irony of this substantial and fundamental inequality, which exists in the face of these very companies’ vigorous and commendable pursuit of diversity and equality. These companies, whilst striving to uphold principles of fairness, neglect a fundamental imbalance within their workforce – the disparities between employees and contractors. This inconsistency, bordering on discrimination, deserves attention and rectification.
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