I have received close to 300 contract job offers/ads and maybe 4 direct hire jobs in the past 2 years. The contract jobs are 90% always outsourced persons spamming my email and phone. Why is the emergence of outsourcing and contract agencies hiring people the new norm? Why would anyone want to take a lower pay rate shoddy benefits and less job permanence. Is it really that much of a burden on actual employers to just do direct hires anymore? No one wants to work, I would argue people enjoy doing something they are compensated well for doing, but working for a shady unknown contractor just sounds downright awful.