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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you please explain what you mean by “treat like an employee”?[/quote]

In my mind treating me like an employee would entail the following for pod tutoring/teaching.

- Setting my work hours for me instead of me telling you my availability and you working with me. I have multiple jobs, why would I give anything up for you for just another IC gig? I'd be better off doing door dash or Uber in my spare time.
- Telling me how to do the job, micromanaging, changing your expectations as you go. If I'm an independent contractor you can't treat me like a household employee because you don't own me.
- Mandating I stay on the job for any amount of time. With at-will employment no policy you try to implement would have any teeth anyways.

As far as making a "reservation" for next school year good luck. I'm not making any commitments more than a month out for anyone in these times. My advice? Make friends, build relationships, and don't expect people you don't know to go out of their way for.you.[/quote]

I think the second one would be a deal breaker for a lot of people. Teachers actually understand how to teach and how to do their jobs, and having someone micromanage it would be challenging.

One of the biggest components of being an independent contractor, Is that the hiring person is looking for an outcome/result. Not necessarily to manage every single step on the way to that outcome.[/quote]

The outcome/result in part depends on the effort of the students.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. If you want to pay me based on outcomes that are a moving target I'd just laugh and wish you good luck.

If you're having the pod person manage distance learning implemented by the schools they also can't change the dysfunction coming from that side. Volunteering to get caught in the middle of a lose-lose situation just to be an IC? Hard pass.

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