Contractors & Employees

Contractors & Employees

One roster for your W2 crews and your 1099 contractors and subcontracted vendors — because the job site doesn't care which line of your org chart someone sits on.

W2 Employees and 1099 Contractors Live in Different Systems. That's the Problem.

Off-the-shelf HR software assumes everyone is a W2 employee. Off-the-shelf vendor management assumes nobody is. Neither tells you who's actually on a job site on a given day — a gap that only gets worse as crews scale into the hundreds of employees and dozens of subcontracted vendors.

Contractors & Employees closes that gap. Whether a crew member is a full-time hire or a subcontracted vendor's technician, they show up in the same roster, with the same visibility into certifications, assignments, and job history — without blurring the legal and tax distinctions that actually matter for W2 versus 1099 status.

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Fiber Technician — W2 Employee

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Summit Line Services

Subcontracted Vendor — Crew of 6

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Priya Nadar

Site Supervisor — W2 Employee

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One Roster. Both Workforces. No Blind Spots.

Everyone doing work for your company, visible in one place — with the distinctions that matter kept intact.

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Unified Roster

W2 employees and 1099 contractors or subcontracted vendors live in a single, searchable roster instead of separate systems that never sync.

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Classification Tracked Correctly

Every record keeps its correct worker classification, so downstream payroll, tax, and compliance processes never mix the two up.

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Certifications & Credentials

Track licenses, safety certifications, and insurance documentation for internal crews and vendor crews side by side, with expirations flagged.

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Vendor Company Records

Manage subcontracted vendor companies as entities, with their own crews, rates, and performance history attached.

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Shared Assignment History

See who worked which job, W2 or 1099, in one activity log — useful for staffing decisions, disputes, and audits alike.

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Connected to Payroll & Dispatch

Roster data flows straight into scheduling, payroll, and the Corporate Dashboard, so headcount numbers finally agree across departments.

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Employees managed at once in the operation that inspired this module

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Subcontracted vendors managed alongside those employees, in the same operation

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Unified roster covering every worker classification on your job sites

Stop keeping two workforces in two different systems.

See how Contractors & Employees keeps your full workforce — W2 and 1099 — in one place.