&gt; Uber on the other hand dispatches 100% of the work to their drivers<p>This is flatly false. Uber publishes available fares in real time, <i>drivers</i> choose to accept them or not. This is the <i>entire premise</i> of Uber. You might as well say that radio cabs &quot;dispatch work to drivers&quot;, but it&#x27;s exactly the same publish-subscribe model: central publishes an available fare, drivers compete to respond quickly accepting the fare based on their willingness and also their proximity, (the latter of which is judged by central).<p>The acceptance rates are a red herring: Uber says &quot;if you&#x27;re rarely going to accept a fare <i>while you have the app in a state saying you&#x27;re generally available</i>, I&#x27;m not interested in listing you as potentially available to customers&quot;. I don&#x27;t see how this creates a control-of-work-time, control-of-work-undertaken, control-of-hours-worked, or control-of-work-place relationship, which are the bases of the IRS classification.<p>Uber lets drivers choose when, where, how-much, and how-often they work... and they&#x27;re totally fine with how-often being once-a-month. Uber is also fine with you working 3 other jobs that overlap in hours with the time you might allocate to Uber (i.e. no control-of-exclusivity).<p>The thing they <i>won&#x27;t</i> let you do is: frequently list yourself as available, then repeatedly decline nearby available fares -- and yet still expect to be listed as generally available <i>while you have the app open saying your&#x27;e generally available</i>. Shut off the app when your&#x27;e not generally available within your geo proximity, and the acceptance rate problem goes away entirely.