Virtual or telecommuting

Business owners need to be on the lookout for the legal issues of a new type of employee.
Call them telecommuters, independent contractors or even virtual employees, the numbers of people who collect paychecks from business but spend little or no time at the office address are growing.
Improvements in technology have fed the growth. According to Find/SVP, a New York market researcher, the number of telecommuters nearly tripled from 4 million in 1990 to 11 million in 1999. That number is expected to grow to 14 million this year.
Rick Bland, an attorney working out of his…