Nonlinear responded and said that their final estimate of employees is actually 23. That number includes 11 volunteers (unpaid interns) as well as some unspecified number of contractors (my guess would be a substantial majority of the remaining ones, though see below for difficulties in drawing the line here).
I have asked for clarification on the breakdown between employees and contractors, though my understanding is that legally all employees of Nonlinear are paid as contractors, so there is no clear line here. Some contractor relationships obviously wouldn’t be relevant here (like paying for well-specified services like plumbing, copy-editing, or software development services, which to be clear I don’t know whether any such are included in the number), and some of them would be quite relevant (like if Alice and Chloe were technically paid as contractors).
Nonlinear responded and said that their final estimate of employees is actually 23. That number includes 11 volunteers (unpaid interns) as well as some unspecified number of contractors (my guess would be a substantial majority of the remaining ones, though see below for difficulties in drawing the line here).
I have asked for clarification on the breakdown between employees and contractors, though my understanding is that legally all employees of Nonlinear are paid as contractors, so there is no clear line here. Some contractor relationships obviously wouldn’t be relevant here (like paying for well-specified services like plumbing, copy-editing, or software development services, which to be clear I don’t know whether any such are included in the number), and some of them would be quite relevant (like if Alice and Chloe were technically paid as contractors).