Google outsources the checking of its algorithmic classifications to a company called Leapforce. The company just cut all its full-time workers to part-time, cut their wages, and discharged many of them.

It did this in a strange way — a new, replacement company has been started up which is hiring only some of the workers, and it seems the company Leapforce will be shut down.

The article doesn't explain the motive for doing it that way, but I suspect it is an end run around US labor law — essentially, a way to cheat some of the workers.