Corporate employers figure it is cheaper in the long run for these freelancers to become full-time employees than it would be to fight the IRS over whether they "qualify" as independent contractors.

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Goldbloom would like Kaggle to become a place where data scientists can make a full-time income.

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By 1982 that operation was a full-time concern, and he was building phone banks that would eventually become TeleTech's high-tech call centers.

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