Can you call it "hiring" if you're not paying them anything? If you look at the etymology, the word is intimately linked to actual money changing hands: > hire

Can you call it "hiring" if you're not paying them anything? If you look at the etymology, the word is intimately linked to actual money changing hands: > hire (v.) Old English hyrian "pay for service, employ for wages, engage," from Proto-Germanic hurjan (source also of Danish hyre, Old Frisian hera, Dutch huren, German heuern "to hire, rent"), of uncertain origin. Reflexively, "to agree to work for wages" from mid-13c. [...] hire (n.) "payment for work, use, or services; wages," from late Old English hyr "wages; interest, usury," [...] (from https://www.etymonline.com/word/hire https://www.etymonline.com/word/hire)