Aren’t data center employees crucial as they are making sure your services are running perfectly even in an event of emergency.
Why not hire them and pay them better wages
Why not hire them and pay them better wages
If they were struggling to find or retain talent or if they weren’t getting the caliber of employee required, they would certainly increase wages as they did with engineers.
When I was tangentially involved with a datacenter company several years ago, they had hundreds of qualified applicants for every job opening. It’s a job that a lot of people want but with few openings.
You would have to search a lot to find any big, international conglomerates with shareholders who would willingly pay higher wages for workers without a fight.
The alternative is not that they hire everyone as FTE, its that they hire and fire FTE to meet their labor demand, and then we get lots of doom and gloom and stock price dips about Google firing techs in Iowa or wherever.