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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Shifts in Employment: From Stability to Gig Economy
This chapter explores the transition from standard employment to gig and contract work, highlighting the ironic trend of decreased job security for gig economy pioneers. It also reflects on the challenges of proving ROI in software projects while recounting experiences from founding a software services company.
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reflects the companies, you know, they need to market to get to whomever is going to embrace them or you know or not reject them but it does harken back to this idea of whether or not they feel comfortable to spend money because if they couldn't or they didn't they wouldn't right but they are you know and so i feel like there's a comfortability in the marketplace like there's some more free money available but they're not maybe spending that like justin said is is on the people who want to be w2 employees it's uh i almost feel like it's it's we're getting into a world where everyone is a contractor or will be some version of a contractor because w-2s are just harder to fire let go there's a overhead to them things like
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that certain irony that the the class of people who created the gig economy and went from taxi drivers to contract workers and uber and uh you know uh moved all of that liability onto people who could least afford it would themselves get, you know, gig economied, where there's fewer full-timer jobs. So I, you know, I co-founded Test Double in 2011, right? And we're a software services company. We provide product and software, you know, staffing. This is not a time
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for you to advertise. Hey, I'm Justin Scherls from Breaking Change. I'm just reporting on this other company. Shorteniel okay we understand it test double i mean hey a frequent
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advertiser of your your news uh this is true this
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is true it's yes it's true this
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is not your spot which is the only newsletter that i read it's a great newsletter i love the newsletter i don't know if we can just reciprocate in terms of flattery uh look like i'll think about it for a services company right it was really hard for me that whole decade as a sales guy as a guy pitching because we founded the company todd and i on this theory of the case that roi return on investment and business value from which everything else flowed, right? Like we had found agile and extreme programming and we'd iterated and innovated and in teams in the past and like really helped companies figure out how am I going to make or save money with this software project? And how am I going to avoid failing with this investment that I'm going to make in software? We were really good at it. Like, and we were around, we hired a bunch of people who were really good at it.
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