Remote workers should be mostly contract in the first place. If you look at how most are operating odds are good they’d pass almost every test from the IRS. All

Remote workers should be mostly contract in the first place. If you look at how most are operating odds are good they’d pass almost every test from the IRS. All they’d need is to take a couple gigs at once. And why shouldn’t they take multiple gigs at once? It’s not like people working remote are at their current employer for the culture or politics or anything. In fact most do remote to avoid that crap. Might as well formalize the relationship and just go 1099. Then you can deduct your very real home office expenses and whatnot. Then you can own your own equipment and office expenses. Then you can work “arms length” from your clients. All I know is if I went full remote again, I would definitely restructure myself as an independent contractor. Turns out though that I actually like being in the office and working side by side with my team to build cool shit. But that is a bit because my role isn’t a developer. Developers are easy to do remote if they don’t care much about the actual product they are building. As long as you feed them fairly well speced work they are good to go.