during the course of the lawsuit , Microsoft made extensive changes in its management of its temporary labor force. First, it aggressively converted past temps into regular employees by taking 35 percent of its new hires from the pool of past temporary workers. Second,it established firm rules limiting temporary workers to one year of employment ,with 100-day intervals between assignments. Finally, the company reviewed its use of outside employment agencies to ensure that these service offered benefíts packoges that closely resembled the packages received by Microsoft 's full-time employees. Although it may take longer to change the internal culture so that regular employee show the same respect to temps as they do to their peers , as Mike Blair ,former permatemp worker noted," Microsoft is slowly but painful Finding out that they have to treat people who work full time, year round as regular employees.