[Angelino97]

Unless the company’s rules of employment specifically prohibit it (which it may) this looks like a slam dunk wrongful termination suit in the making

If you're working remotely -- providing your own office, setting your own hours -- are you still an employee? Aren't you really an independent contractor?

[vivenne]

Not if you are receiving full-time employee benefits from the company.

[Political Junkie Too]

If you're working remotely -- providing your own office, setting your own hours -- are you still an employee? Aren't you really an independent contractor?

The original complaint from independent contractors in the 1990s was that they were de facto employees, less the benefits. The IRS ruled that companies had to treat them as employees unless they provided their own tools, set their own hours, and directed their own work towards the contracted objectives. This led to the rise of contracting companies who employed the independent contractors (paying their benefits) and then sub-contracted them out to other companies as staff augmentation.

Now we seem to have the opposite going on, employees who are acting like contractors?

-PJ