@mangeurdenuage the article was mentioning small firms dodge the pressure by being too small to be forced to do any of it, and some of the larger firms create containment positions (but are ultimately wasting money hiring unwanted, unqualified people, just to make larry fink happy), as well as some other stuff like obamacare and others being tied to head count.

there are laws that basically make owning bigger companies progressively more expensive.

i suspect *that* is where the push to kick everyone out is, and overpaying IT contractors to dodge a tax bracket can be worth it to the C-levels.