أنشئ حسابًا أو سجّل الدخول للانضمام إلى مجتمعك المهني.
This is hard to answer. The definition will change depending on what country/region your business operates in and what country/region the contract is executed in.
That said, employee or IC will both come with contractual terms (and if you don't have performance targets defined in the contract you're doing it wrong).