In the UK at least, flexible time and place of work (as well as use of company equipment to do your work) are considerations when considering whether you can be

In the UK at least, flexible time and place of work (as well as use of company equipment to do your work) are considerations when considering whether you can be classed as self employed. Re the base comment, it's almost not worth replying to as any: "you can't do X and consider yourself Y" comments are in themselves silly, because answering in the general case - I have a different definition of Y to you - you can think of our internal definitions as an ordering of <things related to Y> by <how efficient it is for me to do thing in advancing the cause of Y>. For example, I care a lot about humanity being happier and more equal but I think that in the long term this is something which will have to be provided by the state and not employers, so I'm ambivalent towards laws trying to push employers into a paternal role.