[Chrysalis]

Regarding outsourcing in a few companies I have worked for and where my sister works it does actually cost the company more but they do it more to make it look like they cutting jobs and to prevent a employee ran environment.

Workplaces dominated by agency staff tend to have less rights and less ways to appeal decisions as well as less favourable sick leave procedures. Apperently in the 70s when strikes were common agencies were very few and in the 80s they boomed when the strikes fell like a stone.