Are We Heading Towards Large Scale Tech Job Cazualisation?

Drawing analogy from late eighties enforced cazualisation of labour work,
Companies were finding ways to cut ties to their workforce and travel light.
Companies wanted fluid reserve of part-timers, temps and freelancers to help keep overhead down and ride the twists and turns in the market.

full-time, permanent, well paying jobs forcefully cazualised to low-paying, temp jobs.
stratigically done by timing it with outsourcing and offshoring to china, India and other third world countries.

Recent large scale tech layoffs, companies moving from full-time employees to freelancers, contractors seem very similar symptoms. Could this wave mean large scale tech jobs cazualisation in longer run?