"It’s when we hired full time employees immediately without that trial period where I’ve really regretted things. You go through so much extra work to figure out insurance and stock plans, only to want to fire the person in a couple months."

It's very very hard to get people to move from one contract to another without some sort of permanence, I'm a contractor now, why would I change to another contract even for slightly more pay? I'm content here, more or less, offer me a fulltime job, sure, I'd move - but not for another contract.