As far as controlling and directing the performance of work, that means how they do the work itself. Requiring them to use certain tools, resources, or techniqu

As far as controlling and directing the performance of work, that means how they do the work itself. Requiring them to use certain tools, resources, or techniques, for instance. You can ask them to dust, but can’t order them to dust a certain way. Of course you can make requests - don’t use cleaning product XYZ because I’m allergic, don’t dust the China because it’s too fragile, etc. But I suppose at some point it could be argued that too many such requests cross over into essentially supervising how they dust. I think you’re right about contracting out for help. If you have employees already, and then you expect another person to join in and operate just as an employee would, why wouldn’t they also be considered an employee? I’m sure there could be some loopholes however.