BusinessWeek Turns Permatemps Into Kelly Girls

Following up on widespread speculation about layoffs at BusinessWeek, the embattled magazine has let 20 contract employees go. Well… not exactly. We’ll let Keith Kelly tell the story:

Last Friday, Executive Editor John Byrne on a conference call told the contract workers they were being reassigned to a contract with Kelly Services. In the past, they drew their paychecks from parent company McGraw-Hill and were assigned to work on a short-to-long-term basis for BusinessWeek. […]
Many of the newly reassigned fear the change will make it a lot easier to fire them under the new arrangement.

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