I've been a contract worker for years (since "retirement") and recommend it highly.
As an aside, it is ridiculous to rate employees on their hardworking appearance instead of their output. The primary value to having workers in the office and under their bosses's noses is that bosses gain comfort by "watching"...they don't know how to delegate. And, of course, there is a loss of power that comes with using remote contract workers. Bosses like power.
I agree
I absolutely agree.
But, the tax code doesn’t allow for it under their current definition of Independent Contractor.
Things changed during Covid, but I think many of the remote workers are contract workers, especially in the IT world that I was in for my career, for the last 20 years or so of my work career in IT, I was a contract remote worker all of that time.
Technically there was not reason to be in the office, I could and often did work from anywhere and helped maintain a worldwide computer network.
I could be in the middle of nowhere and maintain routers/switches and other network equipment halfway around the world.
I’ve been a contractor for 15 years. I work remotely through various headhunter/consulting firms. The banks I work for don’t really care where I’m located.
“it is ridiculous to rate employees on their hardworking appearance instead of their output.”
Really. If just logging in at 2 a.m. satisfied the employer’s requirements, then that’s the employer’s fault. It has to be results oriented in order to be successful.