To be fair to Google every company in every industry is doing this more and more. It's one of the first things that happens when a merger or private equity takeover happens- aggressively purge full time and move to temp workers for all non-core services to save some money.

Of course the companies that pay more attention to data do this more extensively and aggressively, why wouldn't they?

The army of temp workers/janitors/contractors/uber drivers convene and sleep in the same parking lots at night. It's a whole community of a semi-permanent underclass drifting around, saving the spreadsheets a few points here and there.

In related news, I'm not sure I want to be an American anymore. This is not the country I grew up in.