Google Seeks Beta Employees

A job posting for technical solutions specialists via a temp agency could be a sign that Google is trying to rein in its employee expenses. The same valuable, hard-working employees who have helped fulfill a company founder's wildest dreams of establishing a profitable business become dreadful leeches sucking away profitability and shareholder value due to salary increases and the rising costs of benefits like health insurance and perks. Outsourcing is one way to avoid the situation, one that has moved programming jobs out of the United States to replace them with sales and marketing opportunities. Another way to help the bottom line is with contracted help from agencies. In the wake of Google's last earnings announcement, which missed analyst expectations and triggered a substantial drop in its stock price, there has been speculation that Google's escalated hiring pace could be a drag on the company's finances. Now, a job job site to describing the arrangement, which cited a maximum work period of twelve months. That prompts us to ask this question: if part of the job responsibilities involves investigating click fraud, why not just bring on a core group of people as regular staffers to learn the ins and outs of illicit click activity and keep that experience in-house, instead of letting those temps walk away with that knowledge to companies like Yahoo, MSN, or even Amazon? And one more question: do temps eat for free at the Googleplex? document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.