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Contractors and employees: the classification tests
How US tax and wage agencies, California and the UK decide whether a worker is an employee or a contractor, and what to bring to your own counsel.
Insights / Team and hiring
Hire, onboard and run a small team, in-house or remote.
Hiring is a run of decisions, and most are made before anyone is interviewed.
Nine articles follow the path. One lists what to settle before you write the job. Another sets out the tests agencies use to tell a contractor from an employee. Another shows how to write a job description a candidate can answer. Another describes a structured interview at small scale. Another covers what an offer letter should state. Another sets out the questions to ask before hiring in another country. Another explains what an option is and what to ask about one. Another covers writing down how a remote team works. The last covers what to prepare before a new person’s first day.
Legal and tax articles are general information, not advice, and each names its public sources.
| Desk | Articles |
|---|---|
| Dream | 7 |
| Build | 11 |
| Grow | 6 |
| Fundable | 8 |
| Starting out | 14 |
| Funding and capital | 13 |
| Legal and company basics | 8 |
| Team and hiring | 9 |
| AI-native building | 9 |
| Go-to-market | 10 |
| Pathways | 12 |
| Business models | 8 |
| Sectors | 8 |
| Operations and wellbeing | 11 |
Illustration: World Enterprise Group Incorporated, drawn at build time from the articles published on this site.
Each dot is one article; the amber mark is the desk’s median.
| Group | Article | Reading time |
|---|---|---|
| Team and hiring | Contractors and employees: the classification tests | 6 min |
| Team and hiring | Hiring across borders: employees, contractors and employers of record | 6 min |
| Team and hiring | Offer letters: what they should state | 7 min |
| Team and hiring | Onboarding a new team member: what to prepare before day one | 6 min |
| Team and hiring | Stock options for early employees: what an option is and what to ask | 7 min |
| Team and hiring | Structured interviews for a small team | 6 min |
| Team and hiring | Writing a job description people can answer | 6 min |
| Team and hiring | Writing down how a remote team works: a team handbook | 7 min |
| Team and hiring | Your first hire: what to settle before you write the job | 6 min |
Chart: World Enterprise Group Incorporated, counted at build time from the articles on this desk.
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How US tax and wage agencies, California and the UK decide whether a worker is an employee or a contractor, and what to bring to your own counsel.
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The three ways a company can engage someone in another country, what each changes, and the questions to bring to an adviser licensed where the person works.
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What an offer letter is, the terms it usually states and what at-will means in the United States, plus questions to put to your own counsel before you send.
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A founder's preparation list for a new hire: access, equipment, paperwork, first tasks and people, with examples of the legal paperwork in the US and the UK.
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What a stock option is, how US tax sources describe the two main types, and the questions an early employee or a founder can bring to counsel before a grant.
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What a structured interview is, as a US federal personnel agency describes it, and how a small team can build one: shared questions, anchors and scoring.
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How to write a job description that a candidate can answer: outcomes before tasks, plain words, essential duties and advertising wording to check.
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What to put in a short handbook for a remote team: hours, channels, decisions, devices and time off, with public guidance on security and flexible working.
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A decision framework for a founder's first hire: the work, the working arrangement, the money, the equity question and how you will judge the result.
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