When and where they work
Hours, availability, your premises, your systems — and which of them you actually need.
Reads as a businessReads as employmentCuts both waysDepends where you are
Four factors, and no total. Every bar is the same length: the side is the claim, the size is not. A deadline is not a shift, and the difference is visible from outside.
Hours You Can Ask For and Hours You Cannot
Asking somebody to work at particular times is scheduling whoever they are, and the useful question is what each kind of request is actually tied to.
Working on Your Premises
Requiring somebody to work at your place moves a factor, and it brings obligations that attach to controlling a site rather than to employing anybody.
The Rota That Includes a Contractor
A name on a roster is the clearest statement a business makes about how it reads an arrangement, and somebody solving a staffing problem usually puts it there.
Watching the Work Happen
Wanting assurance that work is progressing is reasonable, and the instruments available differ sharply in what they tell you and in what they move.
Being Available, and What It Is Worth
Readiness is something you can buy and something most businesses expect without buying, and the gap between the two is where contractor resentment lives.
Short Notice, Call-Outs and Travel
Work that arrives suddenly is normal commercial supply, and the difference between a buyer and an employer lies entirely in what happens when the answer is no.
The Supplier You Never See
Distance removes the instruments a buyer reaches for by accident, which makes remote engagements the cleanest here and substitutes a different set of problems.