The best quote I saw in the article is this: “a Home Depot view of the hiring process, in which filling a job vacancy is seen as akin to replacing a part in a washing machine. … Like a replacement part, job requirements have very precise specifications. Job candidates must fit them perfectly or the job won’t be filled.”
Totally accurate - workers are treated as red boxes in spreadsheets, to be hired as necessary and "rightsized" when the project is over.