Mary Has Been Hired to Write Courses for a Web-Based

Mary has been hired to write courses for a Web-based training organization.Mary works at the organization's corporate office.She is given content guidelines,a contract for each course that she writes,and she is paid a flat fee upon satisfactory completion of the course.It can take anywhere from two weeks to six weeks to complete a course.The organization wants its affiliated contractors to work in its corporate office with a regular forty-hour workweek,unless they need to be elsewhere in order to conduct content-related research.The organization provides a computer to Mary.Mary also is able to use the services of other employees at the organization for the purposes of word processing and editing.Is Mary an employee,or an independent contractor?