“Even at the high-level professional end, companies are wondering if it's worth it to hire a person full-time without knowing how they'll work out,” Jay Houston, president of finance and accounting at the Addison Group staffing firm, said in a Business News Daily story about increased hiring of part-time, contract and freelance workers. “The economy is growing, but the need for contract workers is growing much more rapidly than permanent, full-time jobs.” To read the story, click here.