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Subject:Re: Counting noses (final count?) From:Karen Kay <karenkay -at- CADENCE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:24:08 -0800
>I now have collected 49 responses, 27 staffers, 22
>freelancers: 55% to 45%. The ratio has held within in a few points of
>this throughout. Even the borderline cases--job shoppers reporting as
>staff, rather than freelancers, and staffers reporting a certain
>amount of moonlighting freelance work--has not had a great effect on
>the rate. - Herm
I think I would expect that there are more contract writers not on
techwr-l than are on the list. And the trend is certainly in that
direction.
