Is Your IT Job Safe? - Consultants (
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On the one hand, consultants could be brought in to fill gaps if full-time employees are laid off. But Forrester vice president and principal analyst Andrew Bartels warns that CIOs are very reluctant to cut full-time staff—especially employees who work on R&D—which means scaling back on special projects and the consultants who work on them instead.